Plain Lab · agenda
Event Countdown Agenda
An undated countdown book: a days-remaining number, a checklist and a waiting-on line, repeated for every deadline you set it against.
Specification
- Trim
- 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
- Pages
- 100
- Leaves
- 50
- Sheets
- 25
- Signatures
- 5 × 20pp
- Spine
- 5.72 mm
- Paper
- white
- Ruling
- lined
- Ruling pitch
- 9.17 mm · 26.00 pt
- Rows per page
- 18
A countdown means nothing without a list of what has to happen before the number reaches zero. A date circled on a calendar tells you how many days are left. It does not tell you which of those days are already spoken for by a supplier, a venue, or a form that has to be filed first.
Each page carries one countdown: a number for the days remaining, a checklist for what must happen before that number is gone, and a line for whatever it is waiting on. A wedding, a product launch and a conference deadline use the same four blocks, because the shape of running out of time does not change with the occasion.
It carries no calendar of its own, so it fits a wedding in April and a product launch in October without a year printed on the cover to make either one wrong. Nobody needs reminding what today's date is when the deadline is this close.
What is inside
- Countdown
- 60pp
- One page a run-up: days remaining, what must happen first, what it is waiting on.
- Notes
- 30pp
- Lined pages for whatever a checklist box was too narrow to hold.
The film
Page by page
A vertical film from our own bench — this page contacts nobody's server to play it, and downloads nothing until you press play.
Real pages
Made at the Hibrkraft bindery, Bogor · about the maker
Books that sit alongside it
- Billable Hours Agenda 2027Works alongsideshares scheduling
- Billable Hours Agenda 2028Works alongsideshares scheduling
- Court Diary 2027Works alongsideshares scheduling
- Court Diary 2028Works alongsideshares scheduling
- Quotation and Tender PlannerWorks alongsideshares planning, scheduling
- Teacher's Planner 2027Works alongsideshares planning
- Teacher's Planner 2028Works alongsideshares planning
Questions
Is it dated?
No. Start a countdown whenever the next deadline needs one.
What does one countdown page hold?
A number for the days left, a checklist for what must happen before it hits zero, and a line for whatever it is waiting on.
Can it hold more than one event at a time?
Each page is its own countdown, so a wedding and a work deadline can run side by side without sharing a page.
What are the notes pages for?
Whatever a checklist line was too narrow to hold: a vendor's number, a measurement, a change nobody wrote down yet.
Who is it for?
Anyone running toward a date that is not theirs to move: a wedding, a launch, a filing deadline, a court date.
The time when thou shalt have forgotten all things, is at hand.
