Awesome Calendars

Keep your life and work organized with Ink + Volt’s spiral-bound Dashboard deskpad. Each of its 52 weekly pages provides to-do lists for each area of focus, along with spots to list your top priorities and a weekly theme. There’s also a tracker to check off things you want to do every day. They also make a version of the Dashboard with tear-off pages.

Who says calendars need to be boring? The Part-Time Adult Daily Planner helps keep you organized and entertained at the same time. There’s a page for every day of the year, along with fun facts about holidays and celebrity birthdays, plus a grid for your ideas and doodles. It’s not year-specific, so you can start using it at any time.

Ring in the new year with a trip to our National Parks. Only when you arrive at these scenic locales you’re greeted by Kaiju. Alternate Histories’ calendar features monsters like the Zombies of Zion and Creature of Crater Lake. Need more road trip monsters in your life? Check out their Wish You Were Here calendar.

Ring in the holidays with the best craft beers of 2022. GiveThemBeer’s annual advent calendar comes loaded with a dozen great cans from breweries like Lagunitas, Cigar City Brewing, Oskar Blues, and Bell’s. If your gift recipient prefers something a little stronger, they also sell whiskey, tequila, and vodka calendars.

This portable calendar lets you view the calendar for every month from now until 2056. Simply turn the wheel to the proper year, and it displays the dates lined up with their correct days of the week. Comes with a 4-foot length of paracord wound into a lanyard for emergency use.

Raise a few eyebrows with Brass Monkey’s tongue-in-cheek Hidden Agenda Planner, a cloth-bound daily planner filled with 366 days of random holidays and amusing trivia. What it doesn’t have is days of the week, making this book especially useful for procrastinators who might accidentally delay using it for a year or ten.

Did you remember to feed the dog? Did the kids brush their teeth? What about taking out the trash? Dreamfarm’s Membo offers a quick way to track daily tasks. Just check the board to see if today’s task has been done, and once it has, flip the tile. It comes with interchangeable icons, and you can download more here.

Created by illustrator Katheren Belle for Schoolhouse, this elongated wall calendar charts the waxing and waning cycles of the moon. It serves as both a unique piece of wall art and a useful reference for those who need to know moon phases like farmers, fishermen, and surfers. The print measures 30″h x 10″w.

Inspired by two previous Instructables projects, maker Wolspaw came up with the idea of building a truly unique calendar. Their machine uses a series of three rotating gears to display the current day and date, which appear as if by magic out of a bunch of seemingly random symbols.

Make every day awesome with this official LEGO desk calendar. The 11″ wide kit includes 278 pieces and instructions for building four numeric date cubes, a desk stand, and a businessman minifigure. Now, somebody needs to add motors to this and turn it into a clock.

Musicians, here’s a great way to keep track of the passing days. Ingrana’s perpetual calendar is inspired by the design of a classic modular Moog synth. Use the included patch cables to mark the day of week, month, day, and year. While it won’t make any sounds, you can press its keys.

Andriy Design’s desktop calendar is inspired by those vintage flip calendars which date back to the 1920s. Simply flip the day, date, or month modules, and it the next entry appears. It’s not available as completed product, but you can buy the files for laser-cutting from ArtHouseUA.

Planning a business? Tracking your child’s growth? Or maybe you just like to think ahead? If so, check out Workhow’s long-term wall calendar. It’s a large and durable calendar for 2019 to 2028 in a scroll format. You can even view 2 years at a time if you want.

Longshorts is back once again with its NYC Taxi Drivers Calendar. This lighthearted parody of pin-up calendars features “12 of the city’s most scintillating and good-humored yellow cab drivers.” A portion of the proceeds go to the University Settlement.

ThinkGeek partnered with demotivation specialist Despair Inc. to create this 2019 wall calendar. Each month comes with a demotivational poster, as well as important dates in geek history, such as Talk Like a Pirate Day and the NES’ release date.

Maker of shitty robots Simone Giertz is here with a not shitty at all product – a modern wall calendar designed to help her remember to meditate every day, but that can be used as a reminder and tracker for any sort of daily task or habit you want to maintain.