Printable weekly schedule

Days as columns, hours as rows, the layout a calendar app shows on screen. Set the hour range to the hours you actually keep.

Open in the generator →

Opens with these settings already loaded. Change anything you like, then download as PDF, PNG or SVG.

A time grid is not a day-block planner

These two sheets get filed under the same search terms and they answer different problems. A time grid puts the days across the top and the clock down the side, so a commitment occupies a position that means something: Tuesday at two is in a fixed place on the page, and you can see at a glance that Thursday morning is free. A day-block planner gives each day an open box and lets you write a list in it. Lists are better for tasks with no fixed time. Grids are better for anything that collides with something else. If your week is mostly appointments, meetings or classes, you want this sheet. If it is mostly things to get done at some point, you want the other one.

Set the hour range before you print

The single thing that ruins a printed schedule is a sheet that runs from midnight to midnight. Half the page goes to hours you are asleep, and the hours you actually use are squeezed into rows too shallow to write in. The generator asks for a start hour and an end hour rather than fitting all twenty-four, and the rows divide whatever height is left. Seven to nine in the evening suits most people. A parent tracking a household might want six to ten. Someone on nights can run the range backward through the afternoon. The rows get taller as the range gets shorter, which is the whole point.

Half-hour lines, and when they get in the way

The half-hour lines are drawn fainter than the hour rules and stop short of the time gutter, so the hours stay the lines your eye follows. That works well at a fourteen-hour range on Letter. Push the range much wider and the half-hour lines start crowding the writing space instead of organizing it, at which point turn them off in the generator and write the odd half-hour appointment slightly above the line. There is also an optional all-day band above the grid, which is where the things with no time attached go: a deadline, a birthday, a day someone is traveling.

Printing it accurately

This only measures correctly if your printer doesn't rescale the page. In the print dialog set Scale: 100%, not "Fit to page" or "Shrink oversized pages". If you're not sure it worked, print the calibration page, measure the ruler on it with a real ruler, and it will tell you exactly what your printer is doing to the page.