Chris Parsons The meandering musings of a coder

Welcome to SVG Planner - D*I*Y Planner style 3x5 Index Cards implemented in SVG.

Recent Updates

• 21st June 2005: Added Next Actions templates (with and without notes) and a checklist template
• 14th June 2005: Added future plans text
• 8th June 2005: Revamped site; changed URL; added license information
• 6th June 2005: Released Week Plan
• 5th June 2005: Initial Release

Download

• Day Keeper (Source)
• Week Plan (Source)
• Next Actions (with notes) (Source)
• Next Actions (without notes) (Source)
• Checklist (with notes) (Source)

Why do this?

I used to print out the Day Keeper from D*I*Y Planner for my Hipster PDA every day, and fill it in by hand. I was also alternating between printing the cal-tex output of the Emacs Diary and trying to shoehorn that onto the cards, and filling in the Weekly Planners from D*I*Y planner.

A few things bothered me about these approaches:

• D*I*Y Planner cards aren't formatted in the right shape for an index card, so it always came out a little small when zoomed to fit on an index card (Update: Doug's now fixed this with his excellent Hipster PDA version)
• The pre-printed dates weren't enough for my (very) long day.
• The resolution and contrast wasn't always correct for my laser printer.

So I've created an alternative in SVG. There are a few tweaks, mostly thanks to the increased length a portrait index card gives you - the Day Keeper has a longer day, and the Week Plan has space for more entries.

The nice thing about doing it in SVG is that anyone with a copy of Batik can easily roll out PNGs for whatever resolution their printer supports, and it's very easy to edit and tweak for your own use. Feel free to do so; please send any useful mods so I can roll the best ones into this version.

Future plans

More templates, including some GTD-specific ones.

I'm going to be writing a web application to generate these on the fly, at whichever resolution and colour you'd prefer.

Eventually this application will take a bunch of todos/dates on a web form, and then suggest a combination of printouts which will most efficiently reflect your data. So if you give it 20 dates for this week and 30 todos, plus one date next month, it'll suggest a month planner for next month and seven day keepers for this week, and you can have a week planner and a todo list as an alternative...

Any other ideas are also welcome!

Feedback/Support us

If you want to ask questions or comment on any of this, feel free to email me.

Links

License

This product is a licensed derivative of the official D*I*Y Planner, and is so governed by the terms of the original Creative Commons Non-Commercial No-Derivatives license as owned and stipulated by Douglas Johnston of a million monkeys typing. It is therefore free to download and print for individual use, but not for any sort of enterprise or commercial printing, unless explicit permission is obtained from the copyright holder. Individual use within an enterprise is permitted, as this clause is waived.