I have a simpler problem - I want a yearly calendar app (for Android) that just shows the yearly calendar (for any year), nothing else (no events, no reminders, no anything).
Any app I find seems to disappear from the Play Store after a couple years.
Source: bsdmainutils
Maintainer: Debian Bsdmainutils Team
[...]
Description-en: display a calendar and the date of Easter
[...] This utility displays a
simple calendar in a traditional or an alternative and more advanced layout,
and the date of Easter.
And here is a Bash script that runs ncal to show weeks vertically.
Probably, the reason they disappear is that this is the sort of "finished software" that Google makes it very infuriating to keep on the store. On Android you can build an APK like this and it will literally work unmodified for a decade. Google can't stand that and makes you make changes to keep up with shifting policies.
Our local MP (I'm in Sydney) distributed a piece of magnetic calendars to every household, which can be attached to the refrigerator. All the public holidays are already marked, and I mark my own special ones with a highlighter. It's really useful, as long as you don't mind seeing the MP's photo every day.
> gave that task to Claude and within 15 minutes I had a working userscript
Hate to say it but you can just tell an LLM to make the calendar for you as an html artifact that includes a print view. It can also add a .ics export.
Of course you should go over the dates and holidays to see if it got them right.
I used to save Timeanddate's calendar as HTML and adjust them so they fit A4 paper perfectly (also like to remove their logo oops), but have moved on to generating my own: https://kenrick95.github.io/calendar/ Suprisingly CSS Grid is perfect on my use case :)
I love https://www.timeanddate.com , they have surprisingly much nice content. Lots of stuff probably possible to find elsewhere, but it's a nice collection of utility.
- Use their calendars all the time for various planning or visualizations. Like before exams I used to print one out, mark each exam, and work backward which days I would study for which subject.
- The astronomy stuff is super useful. https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/night/ and it runs great on a phone. Aka I can be outside and use this page to know exactly what I'm looking at in the sky, or use it to plan to see what will be visible tonight.
- I have a simple timer counting down to our planned vacation. Just fun to go to the tab and daydream.
- When various holidays or red days are. Especially those that move and aren't normally marked on a calendar. Like when this and that part of Norway has their winter break.
Interesting how different people's brains work. I personally cannot mentally parse a month-based calendar - the distribution of weeks and weekends is far too variable. I print one of these in A3 every year [0] - easy to see at a glance how many weekends are booked up, any gaps where you need to plan something to look forward to, how many weeks of work you can slot in before a particular commitment, etc. Interesting I've never found the same concept anywhere else.
> In Apple Calendar it's not possible to see the full year, and still have some visibility into which events are happening on the individual days
It‘s weird in general how tools/ websites seem to avoid putting too much information on a screen (see also: event listings, …). Why is that? Most people have big screens nowadays, so it would be feasible to have a view like the one described here, at least for desktop calendars.
I use this to generate a yearly calendar PDF for my eink device - https://recalendar.me/. It generates beautiful pages with internal linking, has support configuring the format, adding/removing sections, and also for uploading ICS files for holidays and such. And it runs entirely within your browser.
timeanddate's calendar generator is great.
One thing I've done is generate my monthly calendar and use it as a background for my desktop.
With a large enough monitor I suspect a full yearly calendar would work as well.
google calendar really sucks, but it's like cancer, can't get rid of it
it has 4 week view, but cannot slide the weeks without manually changing the url.
at the end of the month, cannot see the next few weeks, which sucks.
Any tampermonkey to make it scrollable freely vertically??
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Bonus: show the weeks vertically.
https://github.com/viviparous/showcal
[0] https://neatnik.net/calendar/?layout=aligned-weekdays
https://turnturnturn.me/
It has all you want, plus moon phases!
It's admittedly harder to find these days, and someone should rewrite it in a decent language, but here it is:
https://www.panix.com/~mbh/pscal/
Hate to say it but you can just tell an LLM to make the calendar for you as an html artifact that includes a print view. It can also add a .ics export.
Of course you should go over the dates and holidays to see if it got them right.
https://world.hey.com/michelleharjani/building-hey-calendar-...
- Use their calendars all the time for various planning or visualizations. Like before exams I used to print one out, mark each exam, and work backward which days I would study for which subject.
- The astronomy stuff is super useful. https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/night/ and it runs great on a phone. Aka I can be outside and use this page to know exactly what I'm looking at in the sky, or use it to plan to see what will be visible tonight.
- I have a simple timer counting down to our planned vacation. Just fun to go to the tab and daydream.
- When various holidays or red days are. Especially those that move and aren't normally marked on a calendar. Like when this and that part of Norway has their winter break.
[0] https://www.calendarpedia.co.uk/download/calendar-2025-portr...
Probably a bit overkill, since the locations only "overlap" one day max, but I like the clear spacing.
It‘s weird in general how tools/ websites seem to avoid putting too much information on a screen (see also: event listings, …). Why is that? Most people have big screens nowadays, so it would be feasible to have a view like the one described here, at least for desktop calendars.