The Gilder Creek Daybook

Everything in the file.

A dated PDF planner covering a full year, sized for a tablet screen rather than a sheet of paper. I built it for my own iPad, and it works on other tablets too. This page is about the file itself: each page type, how the links work, and the sizing details worth knowing before you buy.

Applies toAll four planner products

The pages below show what every ready-made edition contains: the classic day and week layout, pictured here in Espresso Linen. If you'd rather have a different day or week page, that's the customized edition, a separate product where you choose your pages when you order, and the layouts page shows all 16.

What's inside

4 page types, every day of the year.

A year at a glance, a month spread, a week page, and a day page. The week and day pages come in eight layouts each; these show the classic pair that ships with the ready-made editions.

Year at a glance: all 12 months as small calendars on one page, every date tappable. — **Year at a glance** All 12 months on one page. Every single date is a link, so this doubles as the fastest way to jump anywhere in the year.

A month spread with a full calendar grid and a notes column. — **12 month spreads** A generous grid with room to write inside each date, plus a notes column for the things that belong to the whole month.

A week spread with seven day cells and a notes cell. — **Every week of the year** Seven day cells and a notes cell. Seven other week layouts are available if you customize.

A day page: hour-by-hour schedule from 7 AM to 9 PM with half-hour marks, beside a full notes column. — **A page for every day** The classic day page runs 7 AM to 9 PM with half-hour marks, beside a notes column that takes up half the page. Seven other day layouts are available if you customize.

A page from the START HERE guide explaining the tab strip, the header links, and how to move between pages. — **From the START HERE guide** Included with every planner, in your own theme.

Navigation

Getting to the right page

A year of pages is no good if you can't get to the right one fast. Every route through the Daybook is a link.

A tab strip down the edge of every page: Home, Year, and each of the 12 months
Dates on the year and month pages jump straight to that day
Week and day headers move you up a level or forward a step
Nothing is buried more than a couple of taps deep

Links are tappable when your app is in its read-only viewing mode. Switch back to writing and the page behaves like paper again.

What arrives

When you choose your week start and date format

Both orientations come with every edition, and either way you end up with the week start and date format you wanted. The only difference is whether that gets decided before the planner is built or after you download it.

The classic edition

8 PDFs, and you keep them all. Landscape and portrait, each in Sunday and Monday week starts, each in US and international formats.

An instant download can't ask you a question, so every combination is in the zip rather than making you commit at checkout. You don't have to know your own preference in advance: try each version and use whichever works for you, or switch again in March.

Customized or personalized

Two PDFs, built to your order. Landscape and portrait, in the week start and format you chose.

This one is generated after you order, so you make the choice on the order form instead. The file you open is already the right one.

Either way

A START HERE guide in your theme
The free 20-piece Elements starter
Yours to keep, with nothing to renew
The original file stays clean, so you can start fresh mid-year

The 20 starter stickers laid out at their true relative sizes: blank pills in three volumes, a checked checkbox and two status rings, a migrate chevron and an accent arrow, a page flag, a small frame, icons for a clock, coffee, a map pin and a barbell, a sun and a rain cloud, a star and a bold caution badge, and a fill-in to-do card and a weekly check-in tracker card. — **The free starter** 20 pieces in your planner's own palette: pills, checkboxes, icons, an arrow, two cards, and a frame. Shown in Sage Paper. Like these? The full collection has all 194.

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Both orientations

Landscape and portrait

Maybe you have a preferred orientation, maybe you like both, or maybe you're not sure yet. Both come with every planner, so you can try each.

The same Sage Paper day page shown twice: landscape on one tablet, portrait on another. — The same planner, built both ways, in the same download.

The fine print, plainly

Format and sizing.

This is what the file actually is. If any of it rules the Daybook out for you, better to know now than after you've paid.

Read the FAQ

File	Hyperlinked PDF, sized for a tablet screen rather than paper. No app to install.
Pages	433 in the standard edition: year at a glance, 12 month spreads, 53 week spreads, and a page for every day.
Page size	Landscape 10″ × 7.1″ (about 1.41:1) · portrait 7.1″ × 10″.
On screen	Sized for the 11-inch iPad, so pages fill the screen with essentially no letterboxing. On 4:3 iPads and Android tablets you will see a slim margin.
Works with	GoodNotes, Notability, and any app that annotates PDFs, including Noteshelf, Samsung Notes, and Xodo on Android tablets.
Printing	It prints fine, but it is built for tablets. These are not US Letter pages.
Delivery	Instant download for the classic editions. The made-to-order edition is built for you and sent within 1 to 3 business days.
License	Personal use. Yours to keep. Please do not resell or share the files.

16 layouts, eight matched pairs of day and week. It's the choice that decides what pages your planner contains, and how you'll use it.

See the layouts

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