2026-05-16 [Sat] 09:30 UTC
#life
There are many planners being sold across the internet. Some are very
cute. Many are overpriced. None of them are simple enough for me, so
I made my own. This is not a planner intended to map every hour of every
day, but focuses on life by the weeks and months.
The annoying thing about making a planner is that there are many days,
weeks, and months in a year; to get around this, I used HTML and CSS to
trivially generate printable pages. I wanted a minimal planner using A5
pages so it wasn't too big and I could print it as a booklet on standard
A4 page size.
The planner opens to a spread of the 12 months of the year. Each month
gets a box that's about 7cm x 7cm (2.75" x 2.75"). Enough space to jot
down really important goals and reminders.
Next, each month begins with its own spread. This is meant to give an
overview of the month -- important notes -- but not go into crazy depth.
The width of each column is 7cm again (2.75") but the seperation between
dates is only hinted at. There's about 2.6cm per day (~ 1") to write
in. And there's a little extra space at the end of each month -- even more
in February!
The meat of the planner is the weekly view. Each day gets about 7cm x 10cm
(2.75" x 4") which gives plenty of space to keep notes for each day. There's
an extra space for each week that includes the ISO week number. The bonus
space may be useful for reflections or goals for the week.
I'll be printing this out soon and see how useful it is. As someone who's
never been a fanatical journaller, I think this should be fine for logging
my various experiments and writing down brief notes about my life. What do you
think of this journal? I would love to hear your feedback !
Estimated pages for a year: 53 weeks + 12 months + 1 year + 1 cover
= 67 spreads = 34 sheets of paper (cheap to print)