About the monthly checklist
A month does not fit on a portrait page. Thirty-one columns need the paper turned on its side, so this sheet is A4 landscape by default: your tasks down the left, every day of the month across the top, and a tick box where they meet.
That is the shape of a habit tracker, an attendance sheet, a medication chart and a cleaning schedule. One page, one month, and you can see at a glance which days you missed.
Grid lines are on by default and the check boxes are off, because a ruled cell is what most people actually write in — a tick, a time, an initial, a number. Turn the boxes on and you get a printed square in every cell instead, for a sheet that is purely tick-or-not.
Either way it is drawn into the PDF as vector lines and squares, not as web page checkboxes. A checkbox in a browser is about three millimetres across and printers often drop form controls entirely. What comes out of your printer is a form you can fill in with a pen.
Leave out the days you do not work
Two things can take days off the sheet:
- Days of the week. Tick *Sat* and *Sun* and the weekends disappear — about 22 columns instead of 31, so every column gets wider. Any combination works: a Monday-to-Thursday shift, weekends only, or one day a week.
- Certain dates. Type them with commas — 1, 15 for the days, 24-26 for a range, 2026-12-25 for one exact date. Use *Leave these out* for holidays and days off, or switch to *Only these* to print just those dates and nothing else.
A full date only affects its own month, so a Christmas date left out of a three-month PDF does not remove the 25th from the other two.
Lines and boxes
- Show grid lines — a line down every day column and across under every task, so the whole month reads as a table. On by default; turn it off for a bare sheet with only the day numbers along the top.
- Show check boxes — a printed square in the middle of every cell. Off by default. Worth turning on for a child's chart or anything where the only answer is done or not done.
- Shade every other row — a light grey band on alternate task rows. Following one task across thirty-one columns is the hardest thing to do on this sheet, and banding is the oldest fix for it. Off by default, because shading half a landscape table uses a real amount of toner; turn it on when the sheet matters more than the cartridge. The grey is light enough to write on in pencil and to survive a photocopier.
- Draw a line between the weeks — a heavier line where one week hands over to the next, so your eye lands on the right column without counting. It follows the week, so it still appears in the right place when the Monday itself is one of the days you left out.
With the grid on you get a proper table: an outline around the whole thing, a heavier rule where the task names stop and the month begins, and a heavier underline below the day numbers. Section headings break the vertical lines, so a section reads as a band across the sheet instead of another cell. Unless you ask for the shading, it is all line weight — no coloured headers, nothing that drains a cartridge.
Day columns are half again as wide as the writing in them needs. That extra width is the whole point once the boxes are off: it is the space you write in.
The heading
The title and the month sit on one line — the title on the left, the month on the right, set smaller and in grey so it names the sheet without shouting over the title. The name line hangs underneath, and a rule closes the block off.
If you clear the title, the month takes its place on the left at full size, because then the month *is* the heading. A sheet on a wall is found by its month before anything else.
A caption under the table
There is an optional line of small print under the grid, set off by a hairline down its left edge so it reads as a note about the table rather than a stray sentence beneath it. Leave it empty and nothing is printed — the table simply closes and the sheet ends.
It is the place for the thing the sheet needs to say but the columns cannot: how to use it (*"tick a box for each day you finish the task"*), who to give it back to, a rule, a ward or a room number, a signature line. It wraps onto as many as four lines, and it is saved with the month like everything else, so it carries over when you move on.
The boxes shrink to fit
Thirty-one columns is a lot of paper. If the size you picked will not fit, the cells are made smaller until they do — and the page tells you that it happened, rather than pushing your task names off the edge.
That is also why leaving out weekends is worth doing: fewer columns means wider cells and more room to write.
Your list stays on this device
Type your tasks once. They are saved in this browser, on this computer, and when you come back the list is still there — nothing to sign up for and nothing sent anywhere.
Open a month you have never used and the tool carries the tasks over from the last month you filled in, because a monthly routine is mostly the same routine. Change it and the change belongs to that month only.
What this means in practice: it is per browser and per device. The list does not follow you to your phone, and clearing your browsing data clears it. There is a *Forget saved months* button for when you want it gone on purpose.
Sections
Start a line with a # and it becomes a heading. # Health, then the health tasks, then # House, and the printed sheet comes out grouped with a rule under each heading.
Across thirty-one columns that grouping does a lot of work.
What people print
- A habit tracker — water, walk, reading, no phone after ten
- A 30-day challenge sheet for the wall
- A medication chart to tick and keep
- A cleaning schedule for a shared house
- An attendance or shift sheet, weekends left out
- A practice log for an instrument or a language
Good to know
- Output is a real PDF — vector lines and text, not a picture of a grid, so it is crisp at any print size
- Every page carries a small grey line at its foot — *Created at https://appandtools.com/tool/…* — so a sheet that ends up on a wall can be traced back to what made it. Turn it off in one click if you would rather it were not there. A QR code for the same address sits beside it, so a phone can reopen the tool straight from the printed sheet.
- A long list flows onto more pages, and every page repeats the month and the day headings
- Ask for 3, 6 or 12 months and each one gets its own page, with its own real dates
- Portrait is there too, and is worth using once the weekends and a few dates are gone
- Japanese, Korean and Chinese work. Type in one of them and the page fetches a font that can draw it, once, then draws those letters as shapes rather than as text. They print perfectly and the file stays small; the trade is that text in those languages cannot be selected or searched inside the PDF
- Other scripts fall back to the built-in PDF fonts, which cover letters, numbers and Western European accents; anything else becomes "?" and the page tells you it happened
- For a week per page, use Printable Weekly Checklist
- For a plain list with one box per line, use Printable Checklist Maker
How to use it
- Pick the month with the arrows, or press *This month*
- Give the sheet a title, and a second line if you want a name on it
- Type the tasks, one per line — press Enter and keep going
- Tick the days to leave out, and type any dates to skip
- Add a caption if the sheet needs a note under it
- Set the size and spacing to suit whoever holds the pen, and turn the check boxes on if you want printed squares
- Press Download PDF and print it on A4 landscape — your list is already saved for next month
Related tools
- Printable Weekly Checklist — a week per page, saved the same way
- Printable Checklist Maker — one box per line, no dates
- Online Notepad — draft the tasks first
- Sort List — put the tasks in order before you print
- Add Page Numbers to PDF — number a longer print-out
- Sign PDF — sign a printed and scanned copy
