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November 3, 2009
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InDesign template for Day Planner

  • November 3, 2009
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I've been given the task of creating an employee day planner.  The company wants to be able to put company events and "thoughts" throughout the planner.  In this day of blackberrys and iphones, I don't really see the point of traditional planners, but it isn't my decision.  Does anyone know where I can get a template for an entire planner?  I was told to bring several examples to an upcoming meeting.

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    Participant
    October 21, 2016

    Hi All,

    I have been introduced to the very helpful calendar wizard!

    It is an downloadable script!

    Makes it in a jiffy!

    Calendar Wizard Home

    lem1983Author
    Participant
    November 4, 2009

    I think I will just create my own template, but does anyone know of a way to easily populate the dates?

    Jongware
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    November 4, 2009

    Use a script

    This fast one (5 minutes) inserts all dates for the coming year. Jan 1st is a friday, hence it starts with 'weekday = 5'.

    var months = [ "Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec" ];
    var length = [ 31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31 ];
    var days = [ "Sun", "Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri", "Sat" ];

    count = 0;
    day = 0;
    month = 0;
    weekday = 5;
    str = "";
    while (count < 365)
    {
    count++;
    str += days[weekday]+", "+(day+1)+" "+months[month]+"\r";
    day++;
    if (day >= length[month])
    {
      day = 0;
      month++;
      if (month > 11)
       month = 0;
    }
    weekday = (weekday+1) % 7;
    }
    app.selection[0].contents = str;

    Copy, paste into a plain text editor (InDesign's own ESTK is good) and save as "writeWeekdays.jsx" in your Scripts folder. Create a new text frame, have it selected, then double-click the script.

    Participant
    September 23, 2010

    The script worked great but how would I get a single date on each page instead of all in the one textbox?

    Thanks!

    Community Expert
    November 4, 2009

    Even though I have a cool phone that can synch everything from my phone to my computer and vice versa, I still need to write everything down. It becomes a permanent record (unless I throw it out).

    Day planners are easy to do with a few numbered paragraphs and styles you could create a day planner with as many pages as you want.

    If you're looking for a template then check out this handy set of templates by Adobe http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?from=1&o=desc&exc=19&event=productHome&s=5&l=-1&cat=225