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Like a lot of calendars, this has a big focus on months yet the only monthly schedules I have are passive and operate in the background: salary in, bills out. When it comes to organising my life the cycle of week to week planning is by far the most important one. Where we are in that cycle at any given moment in time — what day of the week it is — is much more important than knowing the current month. Shopping for food, planning vacations, the school year, meetings, socialising — all happen per week or over the course of weeks, and never per month or over the course of months. The challenge then is to produce a calendar where the months are as incidental as the phase of the moon or the numeric value of current day, and where the focus is on the shape of the week and the space, in weeks, between events and date ranges. (Ironically, weeks and lunar cycles are closely related, so it might actually be cool/fun/unique to focus on lunar cycles while pivoting to a week-on-week format.) What is the best calendar shape that handles this? (The site that you’ve built around the calendar is superbly executed btw.) |
My goto calendar is a letter size page (landscape oriented) with 5 columns.
One column for each week. One page per month. Dates/SMTWTFS go on top row.
Each column (week) gets agenda style entries. pseudo ordered. with just the date and events.
My usecase is primarily logging life events after the fact for reflection and self improvement than planning the future.
This format scales well, needs just pen and paper (no printer, i just draw the lines and put the start of the week day/date per column).
Low pressure, a year is captured in 12 pages. I reviewa very rarely but its there when I need and I can eyeball my way down the calendar without any search capabilities.
I split the page into top half for personal and bottom half for work.
It just works.