Student planner

Every sheet in the Daybook range is drawn by the page it sits on. Nothing is uploaded here, nothing is licensed from anybody, and there is no template file waiting on a server. A geometry engine written for the purpose measures the grid out to the paper, then writes the PDF byte by byte in the reader’s own browser. Moving a control redraws the sheet on the page and rewrites the file behind it.

This one is titled Weekly planner, Monday to Sunday. One sheet of A4, landscape, ruled into seven columns.

The grid

Seven columns, one to a named day, running from Monday through to Sunday. The day labels are set to full rather than shortened, so the heads read Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and the rest at their proper length. As drawn at those settings the sheet reports 54 rules, 49 boxes and 49 squares, and nine words of set type on the whole page. Nine words across a sheet of A4 leaves the paper very nearly empty, which is the intention.

24.4 millimetres

A frame rather than a form

Nothing is printed inside the columns. There are no subject headings, no boxes marked reading or revision, no prompts of any kind, because a sheet that names its own sections has already decided what the week contains. A reader who would rather head the columns by subject than by day has exactly the same grid in front of them, and only the writing at the top changes. Homework, assignments and reading all fit the same ruling, since the ruling takes no view on what goes in it.

The file

The finished PDF is 6,571 bytes. It is line work and lettering with no photographs or artwork in it, which is why the file is small and why it stays crisp at whatever size the printer is asked for. It is written on the reader’s own machine, in the browser, and nothing about the sheet travels anywhere to be made.

Black only

Everything here prints in black. A form whose meaning depends on colour comes out of a mono printer with its meaning removed, and what is left is a grid of greys that used to say something. Black line work on white paper comes off every machine the same way. Colour, where somebody wants it, is more easily added afterwards with a pen than argued out of a printer driver.

Undated on purpose

The sheet carries no year and no dates. There is no month grid anywhere in the range either, because a month grid is a calendar and calendars are answered elsewhere. An undated week can be printed in March, used, and printed again in September without anything on it having gone stale in between.

The rest of the range

There are 25 sheets on the site, all drawn by the same engine in the same way. Between them the drawing runs to 1,119 rules, 234 boxes and 93 time slots. The weekly sheets differ from one another in how many columns they carry, in whether they have time rows down the side, and in how the days are labelled. Every one of them is written in the browser at the moment it is asked for, and no two settings produce the same file.