I may be a few days late with this post, but I think I’ll do it anyway.

With a new year comes new calendars, and here are a bunch of resources to find the one to fit your needs:

First there is Compact Calendar from David Seah. This one comes as an Excel spreadsheet ready to print and if all you need is a simple calendar to tick off the days, then this is a good one. It’s great for simply marking off how many days until your anniversary, or how long you’ve been without smoking, or whatever else you need to mark off.  It comes with American holidays already marked, but international versions are available. As you can see, there’s plenty of room in the margin for notes.

Next we have the DIY Dynamic Templates program from the wonderful diyplanner.com. You’ve been able to download PDF files of calendars on many different formats and sizes, but this program will let you customize your own. You can print single and double daily, single and double weekly, single and double monthly, and single and double yearly pages. You can also print to a variety of paper sizes in portrait and landscape mode, and can start and end your calendar on any date you wish. There are a ton of other configuration options to get your calendar just the way you want it.

In the future other templates will be added, such as notes, checklists, and charts pages, along with some additional visual styles as well.

This program will take your final design and build a PDF from it, ready for printing.

I don’t use Outlook 2007, but the Outlook 2007 Calendar Printing Assistant looks sweet. It looks to be very customizable and produces professional results. I see on their web site that many formats are available, including a wall calendar. You can of course change the fonts, colors, size, layout, and images to your liking.

This is perhaps the coolest thing you could put in your pocket. It’s the Thumb Calendar from Adam Sporka and you can get it from his web site. There are six months per side, but the cool thing about these cards is how they’re designed. They’re not like other business card sized calendars with hard to read microscopic print. These are pretty easy on the eyes. Print some up and laminate them, then stick one in your wallet and give some to your friends.