Today's super-short episode provides a "Continuous Calendar" for 2024. In my view, far superior to the much more common Weekly or Monthly calendar formats, a Continuous Calendar can keep you on top of all your projects and commitments all year 'round.
I know I’m not the only one who Continuous Calendars because my annual blog post providing an updated continuous calendar for the new year is reliably one of my most popular blog posts. The general concept is that Continuous Calendars enable you to:
1. Overview large blocks of time at a glance (I can easily fit six months on a standard piece of paper).
2. Get a more realistic representation of how much time there is between two given dates because the dates don’t get separated by arbitrary 7-day or ~30-day cutoffs.
The way they work so effectively is that continuous calendars are a big matrix where every row corresponds to a week and every column corresponds to a day of the week.
So if you’d like to get started today with your own super-efficient Continuous Calendar in 2024, simply head to jonkrohn.com/cal24.
At that URL, you’ll find a Google Sheet with the full 52 weeks of the year, which will probably suit most people’s needs. If you print it on standard US 8.5” x 11” paper, it should get split exactly so that the first half of the year is on page one and the second half of the year is on page two.
The calendar template is simple: It’s all black except that we’ve marked U.S. Federal Holidays with red dates. If you’re in another region, or you’d like to adapt our continuous calendar for any reason at all, simply make a copy of the sheet or download it, and then customize it to your liking.
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