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Monthly planner
A landscape month calendar with no dates printed, so it works for any month of any year. A side column holds goals, important dates and a to-do list.
- Type your details or print blank
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On this page
What prints
The page is landscape. Across the top are the heading, Monthly Planner by default, and two lines labeled Month and Year. About three quarters of the width is a grid of weekday names over six rows of seven boxes. Each box has a small empty square in its top left corner, where you write the date, and the rest of the box is open for notes.
The right quarter has three stacked parts: Goals this month on ruled lines, Important dates on ruled lines, and To do as a checkbox list.
The grid has six rows because some months touch six calendar weeks. In a month that needs only five, the last row stays free for overflow or for a reminder about next month.
The settings
- Heading. Type a custom title, such as a month name, in 40 characters or fewer.
- Planner. Selects among the five planners. This page opens on the monthly one.
- Week starts on. Sunday or Monday. This page opens on Sunday.
The hour settings are hidden for this layout, because the month grid has no time slots.
Filling in the dates
Write the month and year first. Then find the weekday of the 1st, either from your phone or from a printable calendar, and put 1 in that box. Number the rest across. It takes a minute and saves a mistake that is hard to erase.
Start with fixed items: holidays, birthdays, school breaks, pay days and bill due dates. List anything you need to remember in the Important dates section too, because a long month can bury a single appointment in a crowded box.
Write the month's goals last, and keep them to what you can check. "Pay off the vet bill" is checkable. "Be healthier" is not. The UNC Learning Center has a guide on setting goals that are specific enough to act on.
Worked example: planning a busy November
Month: November. Year: the current one. Suppose the 1st is a Saturday and your week starts Sunday. The first box in the Saturday column gets a 1, and the 2nd goes in the next row's Sunday box.
Goals: renew the car registration, finish the grant draft, host Thanksgiving for eight. Important dates: 6th "Parent conference 4:15", 14th "Grant due", 20th "Order turkey", 27th "Thanksgiving". In the grid, write "Registration deadline" on the 15th and "Dentist 9:00" on the 18th.
The to-do box holds floating items such as "Buy folding chairs" and "Send guest list". When you tick one, you can see the month thinning out.
Pulling it together
Move each week's commitments into a weekly planner as it comes up. If money is part of the plan, pair this page with the monthly budget template.
Sources
- UNC Learning Center: Tips and tools learningcenter.unc.edu