Monthly Planner: Undated and Printable

What is the difference between a monthly planner and a monthly calendar?

A monthly calendar tells you the dates: it prints a specific month with the weekdays aligned and the public holidays marked. A monthly planner is undated. You write the month in yourself, then use the priorities, goals and notes blocks to decide what the month is for. One answers when, the other answers what.

Two layouts, both undated

Twelve of the sheets above keep a month grid: seven columns, six rows, and a small empty box in every cell for the date you write in. Because nothing is printed in, the same file works for March or for October, this year or in three years. The other twelve drop the grid entirely and give you the days one to thirty-one as numbered writing lines in two columns, which is the shape people who plan in sentences rather than squares tend to want. Months shorter than thirty-one days simply leave the last lines empty.

Priorities, goals and notes carry a third of the page

Every sheet ends with three blocks across the foot. Top Priorities is numbered, because five lines with numbers in front of them force a decision that five blank lines do not. Goals This Month is the slower column, the things that will not be finished this week. Notes takes everything else: the addresses, the amounts, the one thing you must not forget. Give a month a grid and you record it; give it these three blocks and you plan it.

Printing, and what else is here

Every planner is a vector PDF sized for US Letter and A4, so the rules stay hairline thin on any printer and the plain designs photocopy cleanly. The printing guide covers margins if yours come out cropped. Print one at the start of a month, or a stack of twelve at the start of a year.

If what you actually need is the dates, the monthly calendar gives you a printed grid for every month with the public holidays marked, and the blank calendar is the bare undated grid with nothing under it but a notes strip. A week at a time is the weekly calendar, three months on one sheet is the quarterly calendar, and the household jobs that repeat belong on the chore chart. For a dated month with your own title and week start, the calendar maker builds one in about a minute.