Compact Calendar 2008 - Australian Versions

November 27th, 2007 · 17 Comments

Some of you maybe surprised to find that my whole life - professional and personal - doesn’t exist on my computer.

In fact I find many tasks more productive when they are done with pencil and paper in hand (and often away from the computer as well). This productivity of this pen and paper approach was expanded when I first came across David Seah and his Printable CEO™ Series.

Compact Calendar 2008 Only yesterday he released the 2008 Compact Calendar. This is a very easy one-page overview of of all of 2008 as a continuous series of days/weeks (and not broken up by months like most calendars). Like David, I print out one of these pages and use to to “doodle” my planning. This is a very smooth way to do either personal or professional planning for the new year (how did it come around soooo quickly?) Daivd also has somegreat suggestions on how to use the calendar.

David compiled his calendar for the USA and already there are a range of country specific calendars including France, New Zealand, Italy, and Japan. Seth Yates has compiled an Australia calendar with all the major holidays for most states into a single page.

I decided to take the Australian calendar and provide a breakdown into specific state-based ones with just public holidays just for your state. At this stage there are calendars for New South Wales (NSW), Victoria (VIC), Queensland (QLD) and South Australia (SA).

Compact Calendar 2008 - NSW

Compact Calendar 2008 - VIC

Compact Calendar 2008 - QLD

Compact Calendar 2008 - SA

Western Australia, Tasmania and Northen Territory to come.

Why not have a play with this approach when you sit down to do your 2008 planning (and stay tuned for the results of my Working Solo planning as there are some interesting announcements on the horizon).

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17 responses so far ↓

1 Karen // Nov 27, 2007 at 2:58 pm

Leah - thanks for the Qld version! Am printing it out as I type this and will pop it into my planning folder for my review time in January. I’m a pencil and paper girl myself, so love this idea.

I am very curious about the ‘interesting announcements’ on the horizon… you’re always good at that planning process and I always love the ideas you come up with!
2 Angela // Nov 28, 2007 at 7:51 am

Thanks Leah, and David Seah, for this handy tool. No wonder the year flies by so fast, just look how compact it is!
3 Chris Owen // Nov 30, 2007 at 12:21 pm

OOoh Leah
This Looks interesting.
Having just recieved an email of enquiry about my next year’s plans and not having an answer, I’m focused on when and how i will be doing my planning.
So perfect timing!
4 Leah // Nov 30, 2007 at 3:25 pm

Glad that you all like it
5 Matt // Dec 4, 2007 at 4:27 pm

Leah - thanks for the localizations. You rock!
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7 Eve // Dec 27, 2007 at 12:37 pm

What is the “R” instead ot “T” for Thursday column?

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8 Marc Bruce // Jan 1, 2008 at 12:52 pm

Thank you very much for the state by state calendar!
9 Leah // Jan 3, 2008 at 6:24 am

@Eve - the R is for ThuRsday as Tuesday has already used a “T”. This was one of the things that Dave Seah has in the original calendar and I didn’t change that. You can just change that over to another “T” is that works better for you.
10 Leah // Jan 3, 2008 at 6:25 am

@Marc - my pleasure Marc. I hope you have good plans in place for 2008.
11 Anne Maybus // Jan 14, 2008 at 7:45 am

Thanks! I just found this and it looks really handy.
12 elle // Jan 24, 2008 at 2:32 pm

I was surfing for something like this for Victoria for the last half an hour. This is great , Thank you so much . Just a suggestion if you do it again, it would be great to have the school term dates included (maybe in another colour) as I couldn’t find a calendar that has a) all days of the year shown, b) all public holidays and c) all school term dates in one.
Thanks Again!
13 Lara // Jan 26, 2008 at 5:13 pm

Love to see the WA calendar - sounds great so far. Please let me know as soon as it’s available. If it also lists the national holidays as well as WA’s public holiday’s that would be great for business too.

Cheers!
14 Silvan // Feb 3, 2008 at 3:12 pm

yeah that’s pretty awesome ! thanks again !
15 Paul Hobby // Feb 14, 2008 at 1:03 pm

I am currently going through a faze of getting my self organized and I really like this calender. I was just wondering if there was a way to set the ‘conditional formatting’ to include highlighting the current day is (for example) red?

I have had a look at the code and tried this:
=IF(ISNA(VLOOKUP(H11,HolidayTable,14,FALSE)),FALSE,TRUE)

… where ‘14′ on the ‘HolidayTable’ is “=today()” in the same date format as the others.

In theory this should work but it is not.

Any help would be great.

Paul
16 Leah // Feb 17, 2008 at 12:50 pm

I’m glad that everyone is enjoying the calendar.

@Paul - unfortunately my Excel skills don’t extend to that level of code. This calendar was originally created by David Seah -www.davidseah.com - and just modified by me for the Australian environment. You might want to check in with David to see if he might have any answer for you.
17 Jenny // May 30, 2008 at 1:51 pm

I didn’t realise calendars would be so few and far between out there, thank you