Hourly planner

This page and the daily planner page are the same layout. They are not two different sheets dressed up as a pair, and the honest description is that three settings differ: where the times start, where they end, and how large a step separates one row from the next. The sheet here is titled Daily planner, 06:00 to 22:00, and it runs in half-hour steps, so the labels go 06:00, 06:30, 07:00 and onward. That comes to 33 rows on one A4 sheet at 595.28 by 841.89 points, with 37 ruled lines and 34 words of printed text on it. The file is 4,792 bytes.

Both ends are printed

The range is inclusive. A sheet set to end at 22:00 has a 22:00 row, ruled to the same depth as the rest, and a reader can write in it. The alternative reading treats the range as the distance between its two ends, which quietly drops the final row, the one at the very end of the span the sheet was set to cover. Here the count is 33, with 06:00 at the top and 22:00 at the foot.

Half hours, quarter hours and the refusal

The step can be a whole hour, a half hour or a quarter hour. Each finer step puts more rows on the same paper and makes every row shallower, and there is a point past which a row cannot hold a written word. Past that point the sheet is refused rather than drawn. Nothing is gained by printing a beautiful page of lines too tight to use, so the press declines and says so instead. nine points, a little over 3.17 millimetres, which is about the floor for a handwritten word

Running across the whole day

The first and last times are both set by the reader, so a sheet can be pushed earlier for a morning shift, later for an evening one, or opened out to cover the day end to end. twenty-four rows, and the press will set it

Twelve-hour and twenty-four-hour

Both clocks are available. The setting shown is the twenty-four-hour one, which is why the labels read 06:00 and 22:00 with no AM or PM after them. On the twelve-hour clock midnight and noon are both written 12, never 0, which is what a clock face shows and what a diary prints.

The width of the time column

The time column is measured against the widest label the sheet will print, not the first one it prints. On a twelve-hour sheet with half-hour steps the widest label is something like 12:30 PM, which is wider than 1:00 AM and arrives well down the page. Sizing the column on the first label is the easy mistake, and the result is a sheet whose narrowest hours look fine and whose widest ones are trimmed.

Black, and a set of seven

Everything prints in black. A form whose meaning depends on colour comes out of a mono printer with its meaning removed, so this one carries no meaning in colour at all. The sheet can also be printed as a set of seven, one per day of the week, each headed with its own day name and every other setting held the same across the set. The PDF is written out by this site in the reader’s browser at the moment it is asked for; nothing is uploaded and no file is fetched from anywhere else.