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Year in pixels

One page that holds a whole year. Each day is a small square in a grid of twelve months across and 31 days down, and you color it with the mood key at the top. It suits people who like to see a year as a single picture.

By Paul Gunder. Free to print for home, classroom and office use; see how our printables are made.

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What prints

The heading reads Year in Pixels unless you type something else, and a line beside it is labeled Year. Below that is a color key with five empty swatches labeled Great, Good, Okay, Low and Rough. You decide which color goes with which word and fill in the swatches yourself.

The grid is the main part. Across the top are the month abbreviations, Jan through Dec. Down the left side are the day numbers 1 to 31. Every real date gets a small outlined square. Dates that do not exist, such as April 31, are shaded so you know to skip them. The 29th of February is left open, so in a non-leap year you just leave that square blank.

The settings

  • Heading. Replaces the printed title if you fill it in (40 characters maximum).
  • Tracker. Choose "Mood tracker (year in pixels)". The same menu offers the monthly habit grid and the monthly mood page.
  • Habits (one per line). Shared with other trackers; nothing from it prints on this sheet.

The squares are small, so a fine-tip marker or colored pencil works better than a crayon.

Keeping it up

Daily coloring is the usual way. Take ten seconds at night, pick the one color that fits the day, and fill in that square. You can also catch up once a week using a calendar or phone photos to jog your memory, though a same-day entry tends to be more honest than a recollection.

Decide your rules early. Is a day "Low" if one bad hour wrecked it, or only if the whole day felt that way? There is no right answer, but pick one and stick with it so the colors mean the same thing in March as in November.

Worked example: starting in January

You choose light yellow for Great, light green for Good, pale blue for Okay, orange for Low and dark red for Rough, and you color the key swatches. On January 1 you color a green square. January 2 is blue. By January 31 you have filled the first column: 12 green, 14 blue, 3 orange, 2 red.

Come April, the page already shows a pattern. February has more orange than the rest, and March is mostly green. You write nothing on the sheet itself, since there is no notes area, but you jot on the back that February included a stretch of illness and two long work weeks. By December the full sheet is a single picture of the year, and you can pin it up or tuck it in a folder.

Notes

This is a personal record and says nothing about what any color means for your health. If you notice a long run of Low or Rough days, consider showing the page to a doctor or counselor. The NIMH and CDC pages above have more on mental health and sleep.

For month-sized detail with room for a word each day, use the mood tracker. The habit tracker counts what you did, and the 12-month calendar shows the year's dates and holidays if you want to cross-reference.

Sources

  1. NIMH: Caring for Your Mental Health nimh.nih.gov
  2. CDC: Sleep and Sleep Disorders cdc.gov