About WeeklyCalendar
A weekly planner, published on paper,
built by a small team in San Francisco.
Since 2017, two former educators have shipped a new printable planner every single Sunday — never an app, never a subscription, never a paywall. This is the story of how that happened, and the people who keep it going.
- 1.4M weekly readers
- 52 planners a year, on schedule
- 4.9/5 across 6,200+ reviews
How it started
Two former teachers, one stubborn Sunday habit.
In the spring of 2017, Maya Chen — then a seventh-grade humanities teacher in Oakland — and Daniel Park, a productivity author and one-time adult-ed instructor, sat at Maya's kitchen table with a shared complaint. The week was the unit of work that mattered most to both of them, and yet every planning tool on the market treated the week as a footnote. The apps were overstuffed. The paper planners were overdesigned. Nothing shipped on Sunday, which is exactly when a week actually begins.
So they made one printable page. They sent it to a listserv of two hundred former colleagues. Forty-eight people printed it. The next Sunday they made another. They have not missed a Sunday since.
Eight years later, WeeklyCalendar is read by 1.4 million unique visitors each month, generates 2.3 million email subscribers through organic content alone, and has never charged a dollar, asked for a login, or shipped an app. The team has grown to eleven full-time staff and nine contributing designers — including three former K-12 educators and two GTD-certified productivity coaches — but the Sunday ritual is unchanged: a new planner, every Sunday, free to anyone with an inbox.
The point of view has not moved either. A weekly plan should fit on one page. It should print on a home office printer. It should be readable in two minutes on a Sunday evening with a cup of coffee. And it should never ask you to learn a new piece of software.
The week is the smallest unit of work that fits in your head. Everything else is software selling you a reason to come back.
Maya Chen · Co-founder, in a 2022 interview with The Muse
The masthead
Who builds your planner.
Eleven full-time staff and nine contributing designers, working out of a small office at 548 Market Street. Three of us came out of K-12 classrooms. Two are GTD-certified. None of us has ever shipped an app.
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Priya Ramanathan
Head of template design
Former elementary school librarian. Designs the Sunday issue every week, and has not missed a Sunday since 2018.
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Marcus Whitfield
Research & methodology
GTD-certified. Runs the weekly readability tests that every new layout has to pass before it ships.
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Sofia Aguilar
Schools & educator partnerships
Former high-school English teacher. Runs the free bulk-license program for the 2,800+ schools we serve.
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Anika Bose
Formats & accessibility
GTD-certified. Maintains the 600+ vertical and horizontal templates across twelve languages.
Plus seven more full-time editors and nine contributing designers who keep the Sunday train running. See how it gets to your inbox →
Evidence
Where the work shows up.
Three credibility markers we cannot fake, so we publish them plain.
Imports & press
Imports into the tools you already use.
Every published schedule ships with a one-click import into the calendars and workspaces our readers actually keep open. Press coverage is the side effect, not the goal.
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Notion
One-click import into any Notion database.
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Google Calendar
Subscribe to any week as a live Google Calendar feed.
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Apple Calendar
iCloud subscription link included with every issue.
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6 more formats
Outlook, ICS, PDF, PNG, vertical print, horizontal print.
Featured in
- Lifehacker
- Fast Company
- The Muse
- The Atlantic
- NPR
- BBC Worklife