On the subject of unusual calendars, I helped a friend make a calendar / digital art project that has a completely alternative month view:

https://turnturnturn.me/

Is there a way to get rid of the text box overlay or does it just disappear when you print it?

This is such a great layout, thank you for bringing it to my attention!

This one is very customizable: https://github.com/abetusk/neatocal

That one kind of sparked the idea again when I saw it on HN, but it didn't have an easy way to add public holidays / personal calendars.

It would be nice if the link to the 2027 calendar included the weekday alignment.

So much of the modern web is designed in service to ad revenue. If you optimize a website for usefulness you are losing ad revenue. Every time we force you to click to see another month/week/paragraph we make money.

Some of that is building "mobile-first". If every app needs to be easy to use on small screens with big touch targets first/foremost/always, then anything that takes time to develop and only makes sense for a demographic "desktop users with an ultrawide and effectively all the screen space in the world" gets deprioritized simply because it's a smaller audience; no real malice intended in such cases just over-prioritizing the "needs of the many" over "the desires of a privileged few".

I found that over the holidays and wrote a cli version! https://github.com/wcampbell0x2a/compact-calendar-cli

Put a photo of someone important there instead.

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.

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.

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/cal.1.html

Package: ncal

    Source: bsdmainutils
    Maintainer: Debian Bsdmainutils Team 
    [...]
    Description-en: display a calendar and the date of Easter
    [...] This utility displays a
    simple calendar in a traditional or an alternative and more advanced layout,
    and the date of Easter.

https://github.com/viviparous/showcal

Re: bonus, are you asking for 52 columns and 7 rows?

Probably, the reason they disappear is that this is the sort of "finished software" that Google makes it very infuriating to keep on the store. On Android you can build an APK like this and it will literally work unmodified for a decade. Google can't stand that and makes you make changes to keep up with shifting policies.

Yea I've thought about it and looked into some pre-made calendar components too but then I realized this will still take me longer to get small things like margins, font etc. right and it will just be yet another coding project on my pile of projects ;)

And I also hate to be that guy but pscal...

> someone should rewrite it in a decent language

was coded in BAGS (bash, awk, grep, sed) and Postscript circa 1987 [1], and it's still working almost 40 years later in 2026 !

Perhaps it was in fact coded decently. And licensed decently as well. ^_^

[1]

    AUTHOR:
        Patrick Wood
        Copyright (C) 1987 by Pipeline Associates, Inc.
        Permission is granted to modify and distribute this free of charge.