The Compact Calendar 2023-2024

https://davidseah.com/node/compact-calendar/

by thunderbong • 3 years ago

159 20 3 years ago

Neat, thanks for sharing. I've forwarded this to all the friendly product owners and other management.

drivers99• 3 years ago

He has a lot of other useful trackers on his page. I’ve been using them off and on (the Emergent Task Timer) probably since it came out ~17 years ago. (Just yesterday I was thinking I should print some off and use them. It took me a minute to realize this was on the same site.)

progbits• 3 years ago

I've been keeping a spreadsheet with calendar like this for a few years. It let's me more easily plan future trips, track "scheduling todos" and move things around. Once they are final I move them to a normal calendar for day to day use.

yrro• 3 years ago

I like this, I'll print it out and colour in the days of my bin collections.

Here's an even more compact calendar: https://time.is/compact_calendar -- too compact to be using for planning the year ahead however!

BTW, in 2024 you can re-use your old calendars from 1996, 1968 and 1940 that you have lying around... https://www.whencanireusethiscalendar.com/

albert_e• 3 years ago

I discovered Dave Seah's printable CEO series of tools and templates early in my working career (some 15+ years ago) and found them super practical and useful.

I have diligently used (my own variation of) his Emergent Task Planner for many years and it served me well.

I was proud of how organized I was. Kept years of daily planners as proof.Still have them in my attic I think.

Then life happened. Marriage, kids, moving countries, changes jobs, no longer an individual contributor but responsiblefor teams ... and sorry to report I fell of that productivity wagon. I wish and hope to get back into better daily routine. Maybe I should rediscover his tools and make them mine again.

flarg• 3 years ago

Me too! I eventually migrated to a school exercise book and an illegal combo of time blocking and Final Version Perfected and it works reasonably well. Now I know what I am failing to do!

lwhsiao• 3 years ago

I made a similar template in LaTeX I'll share here in case it's useful to anyone: https://github.com/lukehsiao/latex-year

ugh123• 3 years ago

No thumbs required :)

gowld• 3 years ago

d3js made this style popular ~10 years ago when d3 made a big splash https://observablehq.com/@d3/calendar

layer8• 3 years ago

This style has been common for ages: https://www.ebay.com/itm/256023396418

audionerd• 3 years ago

I always liked this compact linear calendar format for planning and estimating. I use it often, with weeks on the left, and my list of tasks on the right.

I wrote a command-line app similar to `cal` to generate them in simple plain text: https://npmjs.com/package/calx

`calx 2024` will give you next year’s calendar.

fennokin• 3 years ago

I always wondered why most software calendars always put a line break between months. Feels like a vestige of wall calendars and oddly forced pagination.

I had dumb experiments like this a long time ago as well - https://roflopoly.com/infinical

dmd• 3 years ago

Fantastical doesn't, and is great.

hamdouni• 3 years ago

The Google Spreedsheets version : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1m1IWh6Mmli8K20DdH2wb...

johnsonjo2• 3 years ago

Was curious how long it would take me to throw something like this together using React, TypeScript, and CSS Grid. Here it is if anyone's else is interested [0] (purposefully in a not super performant way for simplicities sake). Even tried to get it to print on one page if you just constrain it to a year (try viewing it in it's own window, like this [1], if you want to attempt to print it in order to see that).

[0] https://codesandbox.io/p/sandbox/compact-calendar-zqp4rz?fil...

[1] https://zqp4rz-5173.csb.app/

RexM• 3 years ago

How long did it take?

johnsonjo2• 3 years ago

2 maybe 3 hours, but at least I got it done before it got off the front page :P

dang• 3 years ago

Related ongoing thread:

The Thumb Calendar - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37866999 - Oct 2023 (29 comments)

xtiansimon• 3 years ago

Creating a calendar was a fun project in my Introduction to Typograph class c1991. Trying to remember if I was still using the Mac SE or I had the Mac 660AV by then. lol.

Lots of reimagining was in play

dattiimo• 3 years ago

My pet project is a web app that uses a similar view of the year https://calii.tiimo.app. I find the continuation of the months easier to comprehend time passing in a year.

The Compact Calendar 2023-2024

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