Daybook

Garden planner

A tracker sheet for garden jobs: six blank rows against seven day columns, forty two tick boxes, no dates on it.

The sheet is titled Tracker, 6 rows across 7 days. Six rows of jobs run down the page, seven day columns run across it, and there is a tick box in each of the cells.

The drawing

Six rows against seven days makes forty two tick boxes. Eighteen ruled lines carry the grid, and nine words are printed on it. The page is A4 in landscape at 841.89 by 595.28 points, it is a single sheet, and the file comes to 4,354 bytes when it is written.

Blank rows

The job rows are left empty. A garden is particular to its own plot, its own aspect and its own soil, and the site is in no position to print rows for it. There is nothing on the sheet about what to put in the ground, when to put it there, or what any given week in a garden ought to contain. Six ruled rows and forty two boxes is the extent of what is on offer, and everything written into them is written by the person holding the pen.

The same is true of the other tracker sheets here. The geometry is identical across them, and the site does not redraw it slightly to make three articles out of one. The heading on the page changes. The sheet does not.

Not a calendar

A garden planner sometimes means a dated grid running across a season or a year. That is not what this sheet is. A dated month or year grid is a calendar, and calendars are drawn as calendars rather than reissued under a planner name. This sheet has seven day columns headed Monday to Sunday, printed in full, and no dates on it at all. Where the columns are narrow the day names are abbreviated rather than set in smaller type, since a heading has to identify a column and nothing more.

Paper

The sheet is drawn at 841.89 by 595.28 points, A4 in landscape, one page.

A4, Letter and A5, each of them either way up

Black only

The sheet is drawn in black and prints in black. Nothing on it is colour coded. A garden sheet that used green to mark one kind of job would lose the marking on any mono printer, and lose it quietly: what arrives is a grid with some cells shaded grey for no reason the paper can explain. Black ruling says the same thing on every machine, including a photocopier and a printer down to its last cartridge.

Made in the browser

Nothing is uploaded to this site and nothing is downloaded from anywhere else. The site holds the geometry for the sheet and writes the PDF in the browser, byte by byte, when it is wanted. No template is hosted, and no part of the drawing is licensed from another party. Twenty five sheets are drawn here on that basis.

The other sheets

Week by week