Two people and a very stubborn spreadsheet

It started as a spreadsheet

The first planner was an Excel workbook. Change the year in one cell and the whole thing recalculated — every month grid, every week, every date. Then it was laid out by hand in Affinity Publisher, page by page, and sent off to be printed. That happened once a year, for years, for exactly one person: the designer, who is also the first customer, and who has opinions about where the notes pages go.

The two of us split it the obvious way — one designs the books, one writes the code. This site is that yearly ritual turned into something anyone can use: the same reordering, the same logs, the same fussiness about a week fitting on a page, minus the spreadsheet.

How a book gets made

• ▣You design it, and you see it. The preview in the builder is not an impression of the book — it is the print file. The same render becomes the PDF that goes to the press, so the proof you flip through is the object that arrives.
• ◈We print through a partner. Books are printed and shipped within the United States by our print partner, one copy at a time, made to order. We are not pretending to own a bindery.
• ⟲If it comes out wrong, we fix it. A printing or binding defect, or a book that does not match the design you ordered: send a photo within 90 days and we reprint and reship it. Shipping & returns →