Work schedules
A planner that already knows your rota.
A nine-day fortnight, a four-day week, and the payday they hang off. Choose the schedule once and the days come printed on the calendar — on the month grids, on the weekly pages and in the year overview — instead of being pencilled in every January and abandoned by March.
9/80 — the every-other-week day off
Eighty hours over nine working days, so one day in every fortnight comes back to you. Give the builder a single date you had off and the book marks that weekday every second week, from the first page to the last. Most 9/80 rotas land on a Friday and that is what the builder offers first — but the rule reads the weekday off the date you give it, so a Monday off-day marks Mondays.
2027, anchored to the first Friday of the year — the next 6 off-days it prints:
Those dates are not an illustration. They are what the recurrence engine returns, computed by the same function that marks the printed page — so what you read here and what arrives in the post are the same list. They start from today, not from the book’s January: the rota is phased off its anchor, so this is the tail of the same sequence, picked up where you are standing in it.
4/10, and the paydays
4/10 — every Friday off
Four ten-hour days and the same day off every week, marked the same way as a 9/80 off-day. No anchor date to pick: it repeats weekly, so the pattern is the same in January and in December.
Paydays, as a separate overlay
Every other week, phased to a payday you pick, or the 1st and 15th of each month. It is its own setting rather than part of the schedule, because a fortnightly rota and a fortnightly pay cycle are rarely in step.
US federal holidays print on top of both, by name, with a weekend holiday also shown on the weekday it is observed — so a long weekend that swallows one of your days off is visible on the page rather than discovered on the day.
How it looks on the paper
Interiors can print black-and-white, and plenty of people cannot tell two pastels apart in colour either — so nothing here is distinguished by hue alone. Each kind of day carries a glyph on the calendar pages and its own shape in the year overview, and the year overview prints its own key at the foot of the page.
- A day off — printed as ◐ 9/80 off
- a violet chip carrying the ◐ glyph and the label on every month grid and weekly page, and a violet diagonal hatch across the cell in the year overview
- A payday — printed as ◆ Payday
- a pink chip carrying the ◆ glyph, and in the year overview a pink cell with a rule down its left edge
- A date of your own — printed as ● Birthday
- a blue chip carrying the ● glyph, and in the year overview a blue ring drawn around the cell
- A holiday — printed by name
- an amber chip with the holiday’s name in it, and in the year overview an amber cell with a rule along the bottom
Where to start
The schedule is an overlay, not a template — it goes on whichever book you actually want, so pick the layout first and switch the rota on afterwards. Two sensible starting points:
The Classic
Year, months, two-page weekly spreads, notes & dot grid.
Project & Work
Task lists, meeting notes, and a decision log for work and side projects.
Buying a run of them for a crew or a department? Ask for a written quote with a purchase order and a W-9, or set the quantity in the cart and ship the whole run together.
Put your rota in it
Choose the schedule, give it one date, and watch the off-days appear across every month of the preview before you order anything.
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