Vertical weekly planner

Why this layout is landscape only

A vertical weekly puts the days side by side, so the usable width divided by seven is the whole product. On portrait Letter that arithmetic gives 25.2mm per day. On portrait A4 it is 24.4mm. At roughly 5mm per handwritten character, that is five characters. It is not a planner.

Landscape Letter gives 36.3mm per column, within touching distance of the 38.1mm that Erin Condren and the Happy Planner Classic both use as their standard day width. So this layout ships landscape, and we do not offer a portrait version at any size. Several sites do; the file looks fine as a thumbnail and is unusable with a pen.

Three boxes, and what they are for

The three-box day is the convention the whole vertical category shares. Some planners label them morning, afternoon and evening; others leave them unlabelled so you can use them for work, home and personal, or for scheduled, flexible and someday. Ours are unlabelled, because the labels are the first thing people cross out.

On landscape Letter each box is about 56mm tall, which beats the 48.3mm Erin Condren full box. The box divisions are drawn at the primary rule weight so they read as structure rather than dissolving into the writing lines inside them.

If your weekend keeps getting split

On a Sunday-start week, Saturday and Sunday end up at opposite ends of the row, which planner users complain about consistently. The standard fix is to compress the weekend into one column split into two half-height cells, and the generator has that as a toggle.

It also buys width. Six columns instead of seven on landscape Letter gives 39.8mm per day, which lands on the industry standard exactly.

Also known as

This layout is searched for under several names, and they all describe the same file: weekly planner printable vertical, vertical weekly layout. One page, one grid.

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