Weekly planner by the hour

The grid

A4 landscape, 841.89 by 595.28 points. Seven columns across for Monday to Sunday, with the hours running down the side. The sheet is titled Weekly hourly planner, Monday to Sunday, 07:00 to 21:00, and as set it holds fifteen hour rows: 07:00, then 08:00, then 09:00, and on to 21:00, one hour apart. The whole drawing is twenty-seven ruled lines and twenty-four words of print. There is no box on this one, because the grid is the sheet. The file is 3,698 bytes.

The last row is a row

A range that ends at 21:00 has a 21:00 row in it. The end of the range is inclusive, which is worth stating plainly because the other reading is just as reasonable and gets the sheet wrong. A planner that treated 21:00 as the rule closing off the row above it, rather than as a row of its own, would be a sheet whose final hour cannot be written in, and nobody would notice until they tried to use it. Here 07:00 and 21:00 are both rows with space beside them, and the count of fifteen counts both ends.

What the controls change

The first hour and the last hour are both settings, and the number of rows follows from them rather than being picked separately. Starting earlier or ending later adds rows. The days are a setting too, so the same hourly grid can be cut down to a working week. anything from 00:00 to 23:00, and the rows SHARE the sheet rather than keeping a fixed height: more hours means shallower rows, and below 3.18 millimetres the press refuses the sheet instead of printing one nobody can write in

Day names and type size

The day names print in full on this setting. Where they will not fit, the name is abbreviated and the lettering is left alone. The type size belongs to the whole sheet: the hour labels down the side and the day names across the top are set to suit the page, and shrinking one heading to squeeze into a narrow column would either drag the rest of the sheet down with it or leave two sizes of the same kind of label on one page.

Black only

The grid is black on white, hour lines and column rules alike. Colour coding is a common thing to want from an hourly sheet, and it is the first thing a mono printer takes away: the colours come out as grey and a reader cannot tell one kind of entry from another. Nothing here is keyed by colour, so the printed sheet carries everything the drawn one does. A reader who wants colour can put it on afterwards, in pen, on their own copy.

Written here, not fetched

The PDF is written in the browser from the numbers on this page. The hour labels are drawn as text and the rules as lines, byte by byte, into a file that did not exist until the settings were read. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is fetched from a server and no template is stored anywhere. A change to the last hour writes the file again from the beginning, which is why the preview and the download are never a version apart.