About Fridgeweek
Fridgeweek turns a handful of parameters into a print-ready weekly sheet for the whole family: one week, seven days top to bottom, filled in by hand and stuck on the fridge where everyone can see it — including the children who cannot read yet.
About
It was written for households with pre-school and early-school children who were already drawing this sheet by hand every week and wanted to stop redrawing the skeleton.
It is a small open-source project, not a company and not a product with a plan. Every line of it is public, along with a design document recording every decision and the reason behind it — including the things Fridgeweek will deliberately never do, which is what keeps it this small.
Why paper
A sheet on the fridge is visible to everyone in the house, including the people who cannot read yet and the ones who do not have a phone. It never needs charging, it does not notify anyone, and a four-year-old can point at Thursday. Every day is the same height so today can be found by counting rows, weekday names are set in capitals because pre-readers recognise capitals first, and weekend names are drawn as outline letters so they can be coloured in.
- Equal day heights
- Uppercase names
- Outline weekends
- Mono print
Privacy
When you use this site to make a sheet, everything you type stays in your browser. There are no accounts and no cookies. The names and symbols are encoded in the page's own address, so you can bookmark or share a configuration, and kept in local storage so the page remembers it next time. Clearing your browser data deletes them.
One exception, and only if you ask for it: choosing Download PDF sends your configuration to a server that draws the same sheet and sends the file back. Nothing is stored there and nothing is kept after the file is sent. Printing from your browser instead sends nothing anywhere and works offline.
Visitor numbers
Counted with Fathom Analytics: page views, plus two counters for sheets printed and PDFs downloaded. It is cookieless and aggregate — no profiles, nothing that follows you between sites, Do Not Track respected, and nothing you type is ever included.
- state
- URL hash + localStorage, in your browser
- server storage
- none
- analytics
- Fathom, cookieless and aggregate
- cookies
- none, so no consent banner
- third-party requests
- the analytics script; fonts and icons are bundled
Terms
Use it, print it, put it on your fridge, hand it to a school, translate it, fork it. The code is MIT licensed, which is the whole of the legal position. The sheets you print are yours and nobody claims anything in them.
There is no warranty: the software is provided as is. Printers are printers. Check a sheet before you print twenty of them.
Licence and credits
Neither the font licence nor the icon licence puts any attribution requirement on a sheet you print. Full notices are in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.
Contact
Bugs, fixes and small improvements are welcome on the repository. The two contributions wanted most are a new language and a new symbol, and both are a step-by-step recipe that does not require understanding the layout engine.