Year Wheel

Plan your year on one page.

Year Wheel draws the whole year as a wheel, with a ring for each area of work. Deadlines, courses, meetings, lab work and breaks in one picture that everyone understands at a glance.

Try the demo Start your own Download (ZIP)

Free and open source (MIT). One HTML file: no installation, no account. English and Svenska.

A year wheel with rings for research, education, department, lab and breaks

Made for the way academic years really work

For departments, research groups, labs, course coordinators and PhD students. Start from a template, or from a blank wheel.

The whole year at a glance

Months, week numbers, quarters, study periods and today's date. January at the top, running clockwise like a clock.

Plans as they really are

One-day deadlines, spans over weeks, meetings with times, courses with the same hours each day, retreats from lunch to lunch, and yearly events.

Kept up to date

A short quarterly review steps through the coming events. Every move or cancellation keeps its reason in a change log.

Share it your way

Send the file, print it on A3, export a picture, a calendar file for Outlook and Google Calendar, or a spreadsheet for Excel.

Bring your dates

Import from Outlook, Google Calendar or a spreadsheet, and choose a ring for each event.

Private by design

The app makes no network requests. Your wheel is a file on your computer, never stored on this website.

A closer look

Everything you can see on the wheel can also be edited in a table, reviewed every quarter, and printed.

Editing an event: a retreat from lunch to lunch
Edit events on the wheel: times, rings, status, repeats and notes.
The list view, a sortable table of all events
The list view: sort and filter every event.
A quarterly review dialog
The quarterly review, one event at a time.
Settings: year start, quarters, time zone, text size and colours
Your own year start, study periods, text size and colours.

Start in a minute

  1. Get the appOpen it online, or download the ZIP and open yearwheel.html.
  2. Pick a templateResearch team, department admin, lab, PhD journey or course periods.
  3. Add your datesOn the wheel, in the list, or imported from your calendar or a spreadsheet.
  4. Save and shareSave the .json file in a shared folder, print it, or send a calendar export.

Chrome and Edge can save straight back into your file. Safari and Firefox work too, but save each change as a new copy in Downloads.

Downloads

Year-Wheel.zipThe app, demo wheel, CSV template, guide and poster User guide (PDF)About ten pages, with screenshots Poster (PDF)A4, for the notice board Demo wheel (.json)A fictional department, to open in the app Spreadsheet template (.csv)The import format, one row of each kind Online guideThe full guide as a web page
Your data stays with you. The online version is the same single file as the download. It never sends or stores your wheel anywhere: Save writes a file on your computer. The demo uses fictional people and dates.