January 27, 2026
Calendar wars: AI vs magnets
I found the perfect yearly calendar (for me)
Found his dream calendar—comments brought magnets, moon phases, and AI
TLDR: A user built their ideal year-at-a-glance calendar using Time and Date and a quick AI script to import birthdays. The crowd split between minimalists, old-school pscal fans, and “just ask AI” believers—plus a fridge magnet cult—showing how personal and surprisingly spicy calendar preferences really are.
A developer finally nailed their perfect year-at-a-glance setup with Norway’s Time and Date, paying $15 for a clean “Multi Month” printout and hacking a missing feature with Claude to import birthdays via a userscript. That’s when the comments turned into a calendar cage match. Minimalists like bananaflag pleaded for a bare-bones Android app that shows only the year—no clutter, no reminders, just days. Old-school fans rolled up with pscal, bragging about moon phases and nostalgia vibes.
Meanwhile, the AI crowd swaggered in: why not ask a chatbot to spit out a printable HTML calendar with .ics (standard calendar file) export? Others dropped tasteful alternatives like this aligned-weekdays calendar. And then came the fridge faction: one commenter swore by the local MP’s magnetic calendar—super handy if you can handle the politician’s headshot every morning. The mood? Hilariously intense. Some want vertical weeks, some want lunar love, and some want AI to do everything. The author’s GitHub script is here for the tinkerers: userscript-timeanddate-ics-importer. Verdict: calendars are personal, and the real planning happens in the comments.
Key Points
- •The author required a full-year calendar with day-level visibility, easy range marking, personal events, and public holidays/weekends.
- •They selected Time and Date’s “Multi Month” calendar, using its $15/year Supporter plan to remove the logo.
- •Time and Date supports multiple event lists but lacks built-in .ics import, necessitating manual entry.
- •Using Claude, the author created a Tampermonkey userscript in Safari to import .ics birthdays exported from Apple Calendar.
- •They generated a PDF, printed it in A2, and plan to annotate and later re-transcribe events for future imports.