This is the smart printing system Google Calendar is missing

Digital calendars are fantastic, but sometimes a good old-fashioned paper planner is exactly the tool you need.

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Even if you use a calendar app to organize your life, the paper calendar is far from being obsolete.

Write something down on a printed calendar, and it becomes a persistent reminder of important events. You don’t have to dig through any screens to write things down, and you don’t have to perform any complex sharing maneuvers to set up a communal calendar for family members or colleagues.

But even the paper calendar could benefit from some digital enhancements. With a few minutes of setup, you can print a custom calendar to your exact specifications while also making it small enough to fit on a single sheet of paper.

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A printable, personal, pocketable calendar

To make your own single-page printed calendar, use NeatoCal​.

➜ NeatoCal is a free web page that prints out a full-year calendar on a single 11-by-8.5-inch piece of paper.

⌚ Printing the basic calendar takes maybe 10 seconds, but you can also spend a few minutes customizing it to your liking.

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