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Time – or rather the measurement of the passing of it – is another of the fundamental constructs us humans use to make sense of our world and, just as importantly, organise what we do in it, when, and in what order. The calendar system (with it’s many physical incarnations from simple printed wall hangings, to more sophisticated forms of diaries & chronicles, to neolithic stone circles) is the fundamental tool we have invented that creates the shared knowledge framework that allows time to be broken down (or gathered up) into human-sized, hierarchical chunks – the annual cycle of years upwards into decades & centuries, or downwards into quarters, months & days, and the daily cycle of days upwards into weeks, months & years, or downwards into hours, minutes & seconds – and within which the different strands of our indivdual & collective lives can be planned, scheduled, recorded, managed, executed and, most importantly, celebrated 🙂
Our range of calendar knowledge maps of generic, past, present and future years – with or without contextual knowledge elements (calendar grids, tags and knowledge resource links) embedded within, or attached to, the month & day branches, or additional sub-branches for 500+ annually recurring, internationally (and nationally) significant events complete with multiple links to public domain knowledge resources about them – provide an alternative, visually structured, ‘rich’ knowledge framework to help users keep track of, plan and manage, their own time and everything that is, was, may be, or may not be, happening in their lives….
Think of the usefulness of your existing calendar but with the added ‘thumb & brain friendly’ versatility and unlimited canvas of a MindManger map, where you can add your own events or musings ‘on the hoof’ – along with links to associated documents and knowledge resources – as well as create time lines for planning the future or archiving / chronicling the past (down to the nearest second if you wish!). All whilst never losing sight of the ‘big picture’.
Read on to find out more about the features of our Knowledge Calendar maps, the differences between the different calendar maps in our range, and details of all the calendar maps currently available to buy.
Features Of Our Knowledge Calendar Maps
MindManager has many unique ‘information cartography’ features that we take full advantage of when creating our unique maps. We call them ‘knowledge maps’ because these features enable us to capture and encode 1000’s of individual ‘bits’ of knowledge within them, through 
visual formatting of map branches, and / or by embedding them within map branches as 
variably formatted (‘rich’) text, and 
unique & bespoke icon images, and components of 
spreadsheets / 
charts or 
single data fileds, and / or attaching them as 
notes, 
marker tags and 
internal & 
external hyperlinks.
All these elements are combined by us in different ways to create versatile, intuitive to navigate Knowledge Calendar maps that provide a rich ‘base level’ of contextual knowledge & knowledge resource links about every day of every month of the specified & generic years, that not only can be turned to multiple purposes, but are single files that can also be easily shared, archived and retrieved….
The main features of our Knowledge Calendar Maps are as follows.…
Note that not all features are present in each type of map, and that each map includes a MAP LEGEND that fully describes all the features that make it up.
Big Map With 100’s Of Branches & Links And Capacity For Plenty More
Grid Style Layout Enables ‘Thumb Friendly’ Browsing & Ease Of Use
Knowledge Is Visually Encoded & Conveyed In Multiple Ways
Visually Rich ‘Knowledge Seed’ Branch For Every Month Of The Year
Visually Rich ‘Knowledge Seed’ Branch For Every Specific Day Of The Year
Additional Time Interval Sub-branch Collections
Map Legend Branch Describes Each Topic ‘Type’ With Links To Further Information
User Definable Visual Formatting Using Built-in Topic Styles & Smart Rules
HTML Version Of Map Also Included As Part Of Product Download
The Different Types of Knowledge Calendar Maps
Once a calendar system had been created and accepted by a society, the next challenge was the devising of practical & accessible ‘calendar tools’ that could easily be accessed & used to record & predict events and – just as importantly – share those recordings & predictions with each other.
Just as different types of ‘calendar tool’ have been created over the length of history (defined as ‘recorded time’) to suit different use cases, we have created different types of calendar map in our range…..
Annual or Generic Years
Base or Basic Knowledgebase
With World Events or Without (Base)
Standard or Academic / Business Year Layout
Calendar Maps Currently Available To Buy
There are several Knowledge Calendar map Buying Options…..
- Singly by type and year or As part of a MAP BUNDLE – Maps can be bought singly or as part of a BUNDLE of 2 or more. Annual calendars are listed in 2 ways, singly by decade (with an ‘all decade BUNDLE’), and relative to the current year (with BUNDLES up to 10 years in the future and the past). Thus depending on the year it may be part of more than one BUNDLE.
- Small or Big MAP BUNDLE – The bigger the bundle – and we aim to have at least the next 10 years of annual base knowledge calendar maps available – the more you save. Up to 25% off the total price 🙂
- ‘ADD TO CART’ or ‘BUY NOW’ – If you know what you want and are in a hurry, you can use the BUY NOW option which will by-pass the CART and take you straight to the checkout page.
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All the Knowledge Calendar maps currently available in our mapstore are listed below with each ‘type’ (as discussed above) in a different tab (note each individual map listing links back to the product page for that map type) ….
Use Cases
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Standard Calendar Maps show months and days all uniquely identified by year, month, day and day of the week graphic and textual description. There are also over 300 further sub-branches showing selected diary events of international public significance which contain links to the relevant web page(s) about them (eg. Wikipedia, United Nations). Events include:-
- Astronomical Events (lunar cycles, equinoxes etc.)
- Commemorative Days
- Cultural / Environmental / Health / Human Rights Issue Awareness Days
- Profession Awareness Days
- Major Religious Festivals
- United Nations Official Days
- Civil Observances
There are also nationally significant days & public holidays specific to a particular country. Currently we cover the United Kingdom and the United States, but there is also a general edition without national events for each year so you can add those for your own particular country.
Use our Standard Calendars to help you have your best, most organised (and most informed!) year ever! Obviously with unique graphics and over 300 diary events these maps take a lot more effort to create, however we aim to have Standard Calendars available on our website for the next 2 years at least (but we will create them for later years if you want, just get in touch).
Uses of Our Calendar Maps
The uses of of our calendar maps are at least 3-fold (but I am sure you can think of more):-
- Stand-Alone Calendars – They can be used as stand-alone calendar maps to record whatever you would want to in as much chronological detail as you require, be it for work, family, hobbies, personal journal or blog, whatever.
- Source Templates – They can be used as a source template to add calendar branches to other maps. The fact that entries can incorporate hyperlinks to websites or other documents, text and images as well as extracts from other maps, and that significant public events are already listed (even for events that shift around the calendar every year eg. Easter), makes it a very powerful tool for self-organisation, forward planning and time management. Just as importantly though it will serve as a fantastic historical record of your year, not to mention digital archiving tool.
- Public Education Resources – Users can discover further information about the public events in the world and perhaps make a connection that they wouldn’t otherwise have done.
Other
- Infinite space space & levels to add your own information – why ‘just’ record that an event is happening on a particular day, when you have all the space and the visual nuance you need to actually run the event from your calendar (which remember is going to become you future archive)?
Specific Tips For Use
- Using the FREE Time Related Template Map included in the download with any Calendar Map, “mix & match” the branches to create days of sufficient chronological detail to suit your purpose eg. copy and paste the “minutes in an hour” into each “hours in a day” branch and copy all of them onto the day branches of the calendar map to plan your day to the nearest minute! (Note during “copy and paste” the formatting of the branch contents will change to that of the theme of the map you are adding to).
- Create an “Annual Planner” map using our FREE Generic Calendar Map to keep a permanent record of events that always recur on the same date every year, such as birthdays, or have some other predictable occurrence eg. a hobby club that meets on the 2nd Tuesday of every month, or a festival that always takes place over the Easter holidays. If you then maintain this Annual Planner map as a “living document” that is always to hand (eg. by putting it on your online “Mindjet Connect” account), you can then simply copy and paste branches to your new diary map to get a “heads-up” for planning the forthcoming year.
Note: A good tip is to insert a hyperlink to the relevant webpage on the branch of the Planner Map (eg. the club events or diary page) so that you can easily take note of the exact dates of future events when you come to fill out your new diary map for the forthcoming year. - NOTE: WE WOULD ALWAYS RECOMMEND USERS WORK ON A DUPLICATE COPY OF THE MAP SO THEY WILL STILL HAVE THE ORIGINAL AS A STARTING POINT FOR SUBSEQUENT RESEARCH PROJECTS.
See the About Our Maps section for the full list of general hints & tips for working with our maps.
Watch our Standard Calendar walk-through video below, or go to the future years calendars category to start getting back control of your schedule!