Calendar

https://neatnik.net/calendar/?year=2026

by twapi • 7 months ago

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Fiveplus• 7 months ago

That's good, you should also give me a way to hide the modal to actually see the calendar before I go for printing. Nice work.

tombert• 7 months ago

I just looked at the print preview in Firefox. Worked fine for me.

krick• 7 months ago

I removed it with devtools, so surely there is a dozen of work-arounds, but, still, it just weird that a page that is supposed to show a calendar, doesn't show a calendar.

pests2• 7 months ago

What does the dark background mean? I could only see it inside my print preview (see Fiveplus comment). Otherwise I like.

lifthrasiir4• 7 months ago

Saturday and Sunday. Looking at the source, it also accepts `sofshavua=1` options to highlight Fridays and Saturdays instead.

pests2• 7 months ago

Oh duh, parsed it wrong - too used to 30day calendar views.

shimonabi• 7 months ago

Adding one letter to the day of the week would be way less confusing.

bt1a• 7 months ago

No need to look too closely, now ;)

RheingoldRiver2• 7 months ago

I think they mean writing Tu Th Sa Su instead of T T S S (personally I'm a fan of T / theta if I'm doing single-letter abbreviations but Sat/Sun is still not the best)

primaprashant• 7 months ago

This is really nice. I keep track of most important habits to me like how often I go to gym, how much protein I eat everyday, and how many days I read (books), on something physical (pen and paper). Mostly on monthly calendars. This would make tracking each of them separately on a single piece of paper across the entire year pretty neat.

lifthrasiir4• 7 months ago

The info box doesn't mention this but it also has an alternative layout where days are aligned by weekdays: https://neatnik.net/calendar/?layout=aligned-weekdays

nullhole• 7 months ago

The same, but for the year 2026: https://neatnik.net/calendar/?year=2026&layout=aligned-weekd...

stevage• 7 months ago

Much better, and solves the Th/Tu problem.

thatwasunusual• 7 months ago

Nice. It would be nice to have an option to create a per month print as well.

mac-attack• 7 months ago

I've used recalendar.js the past few years for my eInk devices:

https://github.com/klimeryk/recalendar.js

Sayyidalijufri3• 7 months ago

This is a really clever tool. I love the clean, one-page layout for tracking habits over a full year.

One suggestion: would it be possible to add a quarterly version? Like three months per page, or separate pages for each quarter? It'd be great for shorter-term goals without everything feeling so crammed on one sheet.

Thanks for making and sharing this!

r0fl2• 7 months ago

Copy and paste the html into an ai tool and ask for your suggestions

Should be able to one shot that in Gemini, ChatGPT or Claude

Sayyidalijufri3• 7 months ago

Done

Farow• 7 months ago

There's an example with 6 month pages: https://github.com/abetusk/neatocal?tab=readme-ov-file#prese...

Sayyidalijufri3• 7 months ago

done thanks

Oarch• 7 months ago

I used to make these for myself and found them very helpful for planning out the year. Mine had only one difference, which was aligning the days of the week between each month.

yussif_17• 7 months ago

For those living in other parts of the world here ya go:

https://neatnik.net/calendar/?sofshavua=1&year=2026

lifthrasiir4• 7 months ago

Append `&sofshavua=1` to the URL.

dotancohen5• 7 months ago

Interesting. Sofshavua means weekend in Hebrew.

kamphey• 7 months ago

I've used a Google Sheet exactly like this. Highlighted weekends and laid out with all days of the year. Export as PDF can fit on a single sheet of paper. But I also print it out on a huge paper and hang it up for my family. [https://bettersheets.co/bigyear]

sejje• 7 months ago

Man, a marketing landing page for a calendar. That's really something.

I doubt HN is your market. Everything about that page made me want to run in fear. And I don't trust your download link.

I expected some dude's blog with an .xlsx upload or something. I would have a lot more trust there.

What am I giving up by using yours? What's in it for you?

didip• 7 months ago

As an enhancement, it would be cool to be able to spread into multiple pages. 1 month per page, or 2 months per page, ..., 12 months per page.

It's hard to write on such small boxes.

divbzero2• 7 months ago

I like the highlighting of weekends, but wish the weekends aligned across months.

stellalo• 7 months ago

https://neatnik.net/calendar/?year=2026&layout=aligned-weekd...

divbzero2• 7 months ago

Thanks! I see the feature documented in the README.

https://source.tube/neatnik/calendar

math• 7 months ago

Saw this last year and liked it so much I added something very similar to it to Infumap (https://github.com/infumap/infumap). You can drag items of arbitrary type onto dates. When more than one item is associated with a date, a numbered button appears; clicking it lets you cycle through them. Items can be pages or links to pages, which when clicked show the page as a popup. Calendar pages in the parent page display as a list of all items scheduled for the next seven days.

Brajeshwar6• 7 months ago

I did something, much simpler, some time back in Google Sheets. Around year-end, I go and edit the location of the starting dates each month (drag around, some formatting). I also like the weekdays lined up instead. Use it more as a bigger-picture timeline/schedule for the year, for the family, and me.

Here is the template from last year that I shared with friends. If you are looking at it, take this as a base or an idea and build on it — finances, big life events, travel, etc.

The “Year” tab is kinda like a big-picture plan of where family members are in their years, education, and, hence, significant life events. As the months go by in the year, just fold/hide that portion.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YwAf8vgVR0FbTU6n1dVO...

PS. I’m tinkering with moving to a plainer text format this year, in MarkDown planning for a 10-year, 20-year, 30-years, and then kinda brain-simulation of what might be in 50 or even 100 years after I’m gone. I plan for the family/generation as an entity and I just insert myself as one of the role in it. ;-)

nkko• 7 months ago

This is a very smart idea. Life orienteering, we are all running in life and some predefined checkpoints would be nice.

jibal2• 7 months ago

Print? Paper? Jot down with what? My calendar in the cloud performs these functions far better (from my perspective and work habits).

P.S. Maybe I should just remove the part in parentheses, since a number of people are completely ignoring it.

andsoitis• 7 months ago

Give it a shot.

f_allwein• 7 months ago

Which calendar is that? I haven’t found one with a decent year view similar to the one here.

barnabee• 7 months ago

You're likely being downvoted not because there's anything wrong with having an opinion but because this feels like a low effort comment that contributes little to nothing, and comes across as quite negative and dismissive[0]. There's nothing to engage with or spark curiosity and the parentheses don't help with that.

[0]: Surely you know what printing and paper are, and how someone would jot something down, so that part comes across as ridiculing the idea.

jibal2• 7 months ago

Patronizing speculation on the reasons for downvotes (who gaf about such things? And for that matter I had a net gain today despite this) contributes nothing of value and explicitly violates one of HN's guidelines: "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

I attempted to jocularly make a point (e.g., I don't carry a pen or pencil and I almost never print anything, and I'm far from the only person who has made this sort of change in life practice) and the parenthetical was supposed to help to understand what it was and ward off the sort of criticism you're making, but apparently it was futile or even backfired, as it seems that a lot of people missed it and lashed out with hostility ... they should consider https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/6k68hi/the_prin....

Surely you know what printing and paper are, and how someone would jot something down, so that part comes across as ridiculing the idea.

See, you completely and uncharitably misunderstood what I was attempting to convey. Yes, of course I know what those things are, but I no longer use them. People would jot things down with a pen or pencil, but that requires having a pen or pencil handy ... I almost never do, as a matter of ==> my <== work habits. That's the whole point of the parenthetical--that this is ==> my <== perspective. It doesn't "ridicule" people who do things differently, but it does allude to the fact that the world has changed (radically, speaking as a lifelong early adopter and a pioneer developer [I'm mentioned in RFC #57] for the last 3/4 century ... so much for insults that get thrown my way--including on HN today--as a "boomer" on a regular basis).

I won't comment on this again.

barishnamazov3• 7 months ago

CSS rules for printing is one of my favorite features of the web. You get a powerful typesetter directly in your browser. For those wondering how it's done, I wrote about it [0] recently for my friends who frequently asked how I generated PDFs for my blogs.

[0] https://barish.me/blog/make-your-website-printable-with-css/

Brajeshwar6• 7 months ago

Gutenberg[1] Print Styles has been my go-to for a very long time. If I remember correctly, the issues I faced was that I could not control pagination.

1. https://github.com/BafS/Gutenberg

barishnamazov3• 7 months ago

Neat! I'll add it to my blog.

sandreas• 7 months ago

Thank you for the nice (and still short) article - I really liked it.

However, while these rules apply for web pages, I would like to... let's say warn all developers expecting CSS is a good option for accurate printing.

It may work for single page printouts or "make this page more printable" approaches, but don't expect it to be an easy opt out of providing PDFs for every single use case.

CSS for printing gets annoying pretty quick as soon as you have some more sophisticated requirements. You should probably also know that print-CSS is not fully cross browser compatible - there are quirks and caveats for every single one of them regarding font sizing, margin, padding and page-layouts.

I would not recommend to use HTML + CSS for something that really needs to be exactly the same layout in every browser.

barishnamazov3• 7 months ago

Thanks for the feedback! Agreed, I too have experienced those quirks. This applies to most modern CSS features in general :-)

FWIW, I also have had also success with running a server-side headless chromium instance on an app where I was generating nicely formatted exam from provided questions.

marczellm• 7 months ago

Yeah we wanted something that would print with exact physical sizes and there's no reliable support for that so we ended up generating PDF with PDFium in WebAssembly.

TeMPOraL• 7 months ago

OTOH, it's good enough that a webapp I vibe-coded in 5 minutes on the phone is better at typesetting and aligning label stickers than Microsoft Word. Or at least easier and gives correct results on the first try, vs. Word that gives me correct results approximately never; I've wasted close to person-day fighting with it over the year already.

voussoir• 7 months ago

Neat, I did one of these too :)

https://voussoir.net/writing/css_for_printing

roosgit• 7 months ago

While on the subject, you can make a calendar in as little as 3 lines of CSS: https://calendartricks.com/a-calendar-in-three-lines-of-css/

opello• 7 months ago

That was a very nice read, thanks!

I also removed the background color so we save ink on actual printing.

It seems reasonable to also remove the #post-title border-top:1rem solid var(--accent-dark) for the same reason? That and the padding-top on the same element struck me as unnecessarily moving the printed content down the page.

abetusk5• 7 months ago

The neatnik calendar is very nice. Others are talking about enhancements they've done and I've done my own, creating a pretty faithful JavaScript implementation with enhancements:

https://github.com/abetusk/neatocal

https://abetusk.github.io/neatocal/ (demo)

URL parameters can be used to alter behavior. Here's a highlight of some of them:

https://abetusk.github.io/neatocal/?layout=aligned-weekdays&... (weekend highlighted, aligned)

https://abetusk.github.io/neatocal/?start_month=7 (academic)

https://abetusk.github.io/neatocal/?start_month=6&n_month=6 (second half, 6 month)

https://abetusk.github.io/neatocal/?month_code=1%E6%9C%88,2%... (chinese month and day)

There's also a data file option for more complex date notes.

twapi• 7 months ago

Thanks for sharing!

moontear• 7 months ago

Awesome! Totally love your version as my first gripe was that I can't adjust naming to fit my needs (localized, non-english). Your JS version is awesome, thanks!

If you want something for your examples, this would be the German-localized version for 2026: https://abetusk.github.io/neatocal/?year=2026&weekday_code=S...

abetusk5• 7 months ago

Added to the list of presets in the README [0]. Thanks!

[0] https://github.com/abetusk/neatocal?tab=readme-ov-file#prese...

Eduard• 7 months ago

MDMDFSS

naja

erelong• 7 months ago

just posting this because I struggled to figure it out for some reason; for doubled sided printing (duplex) with 6 months on each side:

https://abetusk.github.io/neatocal/?year=2026&start_month=0&...

https://abetusk.github.io/neatocal/?year=2026&start_month=6&...

c6p• 7 months ago

Awesome. I have added half-colored days and date emojis to my fork. https://github.com/c6p/neatocal

Check out my Turkish Holidays example for 2026: https://c6p.github.io/neatocal/?data=example/tr-2026.json

albert_e• 7 months ago

Daveseah.com was a favorite bookmark for me -- his "printable CEO" series of task planners and calendars were cool.

I have since fallen off the productivity wagon unfortunately.

For many years past I have printed and used stacks of the Emergent Task Planner.

He has a Compact Calendar that has somewhat similar layout as OP.

Edit to add link:

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

The website domain seems to have changed a bit.

Brajeshwar6• 7 months ago

Big fan for a very long time and still appreciate his work. His domain changed to follow his life choices.[1]

Later in life, I realize that too much reliance on tools is not something I’m fond of. DSri’s tools (printables) are good and I usually do it when I’m helping out team members, and others looking for guardrails for their productivity. For me now, the tools are too tool-focused and I no longer need them. I have printed and used them for product groups, and even a few times for my daughter’s projects with her friends.

1. https://dsriseah.com/about/sri/

dotancohen5• 7 months ago

These look great for people who like to plan their tasks. I found that when I plan my tasks and plan my day and plan my time bubbles, I spend so much time planning that I don't have time left for doing. This planner explicitly encourages having only three planned tasks for the day. What's wrong with just doing those tasks without writing them down?

I ask in full seriousness, as someone struggling decades with how to plan and then do personal and professional tasks. I ask as a question, not as a criticism.

mikae1• 7 months ago

I prefer this one: https://veckonr.se/kalender/2026

The year is split in two (ample space for notes) and it has week numbers. At work I print the year on two A3.

mkagenius• 7 months ago

I have since fallen off the productivity wagon unfortunately

If you don't mind sharing, what was the reason? I'm asking coz these things and also note taking isn't sustainable for me at all.

abustamam• 7 months ago

Not OP but I used to be totally into productivity hacks and being on top of things, goal setting, habit tracking, everything.

I stopped when I realized I could just... Not, and still thrive in my life. Simplify my systems.

I set myself a goal to workout every morning. Sometimes I miss it because my infant daughter decides to wake up at 4am instead of 5am. I give myself grace.

We eat largely the same meals every day. Some cooked protein, some cooked veggies, and a grain (rice or pasta).

And I just have a regular routine at work where I work on work and also do explorative education for myself during breaks. Look into different frameworks, patterns, etc.

I didn't need to meticulously plan out every second of my day, month, year. I just needed systems that made things predictable. Sometimes I drop the ball and it's fine. I get back on the horse when I can.

mesosan• 7 months ago

Wow, I love this! Great job man

ksec• 7 months ago

This is BRILLIANT!! Thank You. Such as simple idea I wonder I have never thought of doing it myself. I currently have Stick notes to do list but it is a little messy with some date on it.

The older I am, the more I use good old fashion analogue tools like pencil and paper.

paozac• 7 months ago

Very nice, but on an A4 sheet the last row is cut off and you need to manually shrink it

inatreecrown2• 7 months ago

great idea, just printed it out and this will do for my calendar next year!

Reventlov• 7 months ago

Is it just me, or can't you close the big pop-in welcome info box on firefox ?

dandersch• 7 months ago

I had the same reaction and I think you are not supposed to close it. Just go Menu -> Print (Ctrl+P) and you will see it without the box.

zkmon2• 7 months ago

This is like a video that I saw where a carpenter uses very high end equipment and skills to create a phone holder to be placed on a desk.

We ran out of real work and real problems.

Tech and machinery is far ahead of the needs of humanity. Yes, you can create and print a single page calendar or carve out a phone holder, but when you think of it's usage, you are not going to need it - YAGNI.

PaulRobinson• 7 months ago

There are proven advantages to hand-writing out notes and planning on paper over digital tools - the physical, tactile experience engages your brain in different ways, and this has been proven by multiple studies.

Digital tools are great. They're why they're here. But a lot of people want paper for good reasons, and it's a very different experience to wanting a wooden holder for your phone.

zkmon2• 7 months ago

I agree on the benefits of tactile experience. But it need not come from paper, which is very modern thing. Information is being sucked out from real world, into digital space. College teachers are no longer writing on blackboards. Money is no longer a physical thing. Work is being done in virtual spaces. The only things that are left in physical world are the information-less objects, just like how the world was before invention of writing.

When information finds its natural habitat in the digital space, we need to re-orient ourselves.

defanor• 7 months ago

Neat, but it takes two pages on printing in the landscape orientation in Firefox on either A4 or US letter paper sizes here, with minimal font size set to 16. Generally matching of text dimensions to container dimensions is unreliable if you take into account browser settings (not just minimal font size, but also things like differing fonts and disabled custom fonts), and perhaps an SVG image with pre-rendered texts would be more appropriate for such a task. Or even a more pages-oriented format, and for different paper sizes.

boxed• 7 months ago

In Sweden this format is called Hallon-almanackan (the raspberry almanack). I build an implementation here: thttps://hallonalmanackan.kodare.com/

meteyor2• 7 months ago

Tack. :) I might use Stylus to change the layout a bit. But actually just what I was looking for!

abetusk5• 7 months ago

Here's a rough draft of my interpretation:

https://abetusk.github.io/neatocal/?layout=hallon-almanackan

kseistrup• 7 months ago

Here's a [Danish spoken] page to make a PDF calendar for any year in Danish, English, Norwegian, or Swedish: https://kalendersiden.dk/

encom• 7 months ago

I use that all the time, and it's the only one in this thread I've seen that displays week numbers, which is essential if you are employed.

SenpaiHurricane• 7 months ago

Now i have printed the year my wife has born, I will mark her birthday only and give it to her as a gift. Thank you!

codersfocus• 7 months ago

This looks neat, not exactly sure how useful such a tiny space for each day would be by itself.

I took the complete opposite approach with Wiseday, giving each day its own page (and each waking hour some space too.)

Example: https://imgur.com/a/LjSDPw9

V1 releasing on iOS as soon as Apple finishes reviewing if anyone wants to try (waitlist at https://wisedayplanner.com/waitlist/)

runtimepanic• 7 months ago

Clean, readable, and refreshingly boring in the best possible way. Sometimes a calendar should just… be a calendar. Bookmarking this for 2026.

dcreater• 7 months ago

I cant close the modal?

pja• 7 months ago

Just ctrl-p & look at the preview.

cwmoore• 7 months ago

Realized, timely, and definite.

Perfect post.

pierridotite• 7 months ago

Looks cool !

igor_mart• 7 months ago

What if... we removed the month-ends?

I typically imagine time as a line, so I wondered what it would look like if days were rects in one line, just word-wrapped. It doesn't auto-adjust to page size, but 75% zoom works fine for printing in my case.

https://igormartynov.com/calendar2026.html

bronco21016• 7 months ago

Oooooh I like this a lot! I had Claude Code make me something in python quickly after I looked at the original post because I also prefer viewing time horizontally. I had mine do each month on a line. Sorry, didn't bother to host as a page. Here's the HTML/CSS though https://gist.github.com/bronco21016/d2d188c402b8e70c7bc115f4...

I like your layout a lot though so I might adapt that and there is still probably room to add the month label at the beginning of each month.

drewp• 7 months ago

A variation of that one with month names: https://bigasterisk.com/post/2026%20Calendar%20-%20Print%20-...

Note that you can align the weeks (or not) by adjusting the width at print time.

meteyor2• 7 months ago

I love the simple layout and idea of this calendar. Very nice! I do however miss some localizations. Is this calendar made for any specific country in mind? Is it possible to change? :)

neillyons• 7 months ago

Can anyone recommend a native macOS app with a calendar like this that supports .ics calendars?

huhtenberg6• 7 months ago

Margins need to be a bit larger.

When printed, "2026" at the top is cut in half and at the bottom "31st" cells are cut right through the slab of 1. On the left side all but last few pixels of dates are cut off, and the last column is visibly narrower than the rest.

This is in Firefox on Windows.

fogleman• 7 months ago

Probably depends on your printer. And you should be able to adjust margins in the print setup.

hrldcpr• 7 months ago

yeah Firefox on Linux gave me bad margins too, whereas Chrome on Linux printed perfectly :'(

ozim• 7 months ago

Firefox on MacOS the same, Chrome worked as expected.

StephenHerlihyy• 7 months ago

My biggest hope for Elon’s Mars plan is the chance to create a whole new Calendar system that makes sense. Like honestly. 7 days in a week? Random days per month? Uneven quarters? Who the hell decided to put the leap day in February! Clearly it should be at the beginning/end of the year. The western Calendar is nuts.

Why doesn’t every month have 30 days with the last day of the quarter having 31? Ohh leap year? December 32nd or January 0.

Y_Y3• 7 months ago

Musk may already have thought of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar

Vive la révolution!

https://c.ndtvimg.com/2020-02/svbftvto_elon-musk-elon-musk-v...

wjgilmore• 7 months ago

I have a 3’x4’ dry erase version of this calendar format on my office wall. Bought it cheap on Amazon a few years ago. Put work travel dates, anniversaries, birthdays, vacations, etc on it. It’s nice to be able to see the “big picture” at a glance, and my kids love putting their own dates on it such as when they think Halloween decorations should be put up lol.

jedberg• 7 months ago

This is awesome, but my one suggestion is to abbreviate Thursday as "R" instead of "T" to avoid confusion with Tuesday.

This is how almost all calendars do it when there is only one letter for the day, so it's pretty standard.

vee-kay• 7 months ago

The popup on the page doesn't close. It's irritating. Please fix it.

chinathrow• 7 months ago

Ctrl-p and it's gone.

sans_souse• 7 months ago

Anyone able to print this via Android? When I tap 3-dots in chrome → share→print I am getting an error

Y_Y3• 7 months ago

Probably because Chrome is shit, it prints fine on Android with Firefox 146.

Y_Y3• 7 months ago

Unfortunately it doesn't take kindly the futurists who like to spell years with a starting 0, like "02026” - https://neatnik.net/calendar/?year=02026

This proves once and for all that civilization will not last until the decamillenium and you're just doing octal.

huhtenberg6• 7 months ago

Here's another, a bit more uniform and month-agnostic way to format a year -

https://i.imgur.com/B9UEQw1.png

abetusk5• 7 months ago

What happens on leap years?

huhtenberg6• 7 months ago

You get an extra cell in the last column.

jerry802• 7 months ago

It appears to have 30 days in October and 31 days in November.

huhtenberg6• 7 months ago

Sorry about that. The perils of artisanal calendaring.

https://i.imgur.com/AoH5A67.png

MinimalAction2• 7 months ago

Wait, so how is it fitting properly? 28*13 = 364, but I don't see a day missing. What am I not understanding?

huhtenberg6• 7 months ago

Jeez, lol. Sorry about that :)

JaviLopezG• 7 months ago

Your app inspired me to make a collaborative version

https://calendar.yups.me/

xthe• 7 months ago

Nice one

andreyf• 7 months ago

Weekly version in sheets makes more sense for me, since almost everything in my year is split logically by week — https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18YsOpI4GsxKGZmpMRQcN...

Generated using this JS in an action script — https://gist.github.com/anfedorov/9f7dc03432a4da783577aec68f...

archon810• 7 months ago

I can't seem to dismiss the welcome message on mobile.

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