[weeb]

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.

[0] https://www.calendarpedia.co.uk/download/calendar-2025-portr...

[matsemann]

Someone once collected how people visualize the year and wrote about it here: https://nrkbeta.no/2018/01/01/this-is-what-the-year-actually...

Quite interesting how people are so different.

[ralferoo]

I've been a fan of Bullet Journals for a few years. I've never bought any of the official books, just use a 192 page 38 line ruled A4 soft-cover book.

For a long time, I just had some "future log" pages (actually I tend to have 3-4 years worth) at the start of each book, where I have 3 months per page so I can drop in important future events (like booking a holiday 12 months out), birthdays etc (although I only copy these forward annually) and then a "month ahead" page at the start of each page where I had a line per day. I found that I wasn't really using most of these lines though because mostly only the weekends were useful for me.

I switched to having a 9 month-view where I have a line per week, and the left page is the weekend and the right page for weekdays. I pen in the dates for every weekend day, and tend to only fill in the dates on the weekdays when I have something to add on a specific day. I only ever write in pencil on these pages apart from the dates in pen, so blocks can be erased easily, and I tend to use corner square brackets to highlight start and ends of longer special periods like holidays. It's a bit annoying not having a full 12-month view, but I also like the fact that because it starts at some key event, then it usually crosses the year boundary. I tend to use these as future planning rather than recording events, and if it gets messy with too much rubbing out or crossing out, then I'll just start a new one from current (or occasionally a couple of weeks back) and put a note on the old page linking to the page number with the new calendar, and a note on the new one linking to the last.