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.
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#62CSS 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/
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 annoy…
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.
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#63In Sweden this format is called Hallon-almanackan (the raspberry almanack). I build an implementation here: thttps://hallonalmanackan.kodare.com/
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#64This 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.
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.
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.
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#65Here's a [Danish spoken] page to make a PDF calendar for any year in Danish, English, Norwegian, or Swedish: https://kalendersiden.dk/
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#66Now 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!
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Writing down is a sign-post for you to stay in your lane. Otherwise, you were working on a task and something fail in your terminal; by evening you realize you spent the last 4 hours fixing your entire dotfiles, fixing environment, shell, and what-not to move easily between machines smoothly (you also realized you are not moving machines anytime soon). The Frog to Eat that you wrote down yesterday for today, and the…
I see, thanks.
> Writing down is a sign-post for you to stay in your lane.
> #git commit -m "Foo the bar"
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#68This 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/)
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#69Clean, readable, and refreshingly boring in the best possible way.
Sometimes a calendar should just… be a calendar. Bookmarking this for 2026.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...
Added to the list of presets in the README [0]. Thanks! [0] https://github.com/abetusk/neatocal?tab=readme-ov-file#prese...
It would be trivial to allow all possible languages with toLocaleString[0]:
d = new Date();
console.log(d.toLocaleString(window.navigator.language, {
weekday: 'short'
}));