Time-Based (Calendar) Maps

Annual Calendars - World Evenets (General Edition)

Annual Calendars - World Events (GB Edition)

Annual Calendars - World Events (US Edition)

Time-Based (Calendar) Maps

We’re currently rebuilding our knowledge map store and upgrading the contents to take advantage of advances in MindManager capabilities. Knowledge maps will appear in each category / sub-category in due course.

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 organise what we do in it. The calendar / diary is the fundamental tool we have invented to break time down into human-sized, hierarchical chunks – years, months, days, hours & minutes – within which the different aspects of our indivdual & collective lives can be planned, scheduled, recorded & managed.

Our range of calendar knowledge maps of generic, past, present and future years provide – with or without sub-branches for 500+ annually recurring, internationally (and nationally) significant events complete with multiple links to public domain knowledge resources about them – provide the alternative visual framework to help users keep track of, and manage, their own time, and create time lines for planning the future or archiving the past (down to the nearest second if you wish)! Think of the usefullness of your existing calendar with the added versatility of a MindManger map that enables you to add your own ‘events’ “on the hoof” along with links to documents and knowledge resources.

Annotated slide show of our Annual Base Knowledge Calendar maps….

Part of the 'Knowledge Calendar Map' Category

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Watch the brief explainer videos of what’s what below before viewing / downloading a sample of this map to play with….

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Explore our Calendar / Time Map Categories and Featured Map below. New to our knowledge maps? Explore our Map Guide to find out about the anatomy of the different map elements and how once they are combined they are more than the sum of the parts, the 2 different file formats, using HTML maps for beginners, the user benefits of our maps and the background of how we came to create them and offer them to the world in this Map Store 🙂

Annual Calendars - World Events (General Edition)

As per the Base Annual Calendar plus over 600 further sub-branches showing globally significant diary events with multiple links to relevant online knowledge resources (eg. Wikipedia, United Nations).

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Annual Calendars - World Events (GB Edition)

As per the General International Annual Calendar plus further sub-branches for nationally significant days & public holidays specific to the United Kingdom and its constituent home nations.

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Annual Calendars - World Events (US Edition)

As per the General International Annual Calendar plus further sub-branches for nationally significant days & public holidays specific to the United States and its constituent states.

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Time Related Templates

Variety of top-to-bottom & bottom-to-top configurations of complete time sequences from seconds, to centuries to enable users to construct their own timeline maps tas required.

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Featured Knowledge Map Resource

The full description of a classic example of one of our Time-Based (Calendar) knowledge maps. Read what it's all about as well as instantly view a sample version (opens in a new browser tab).

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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

Charles Kettering

American inventor, engineer & businessman

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

Charles Kettering

American inventor, engineer & businessman

You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what you're going to do with it.

Susie Bright

American feminist, author and journalist

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

Bil Keane

American Cartoonist

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

Leslie Poles Hartley

British author of 'The Go Between'

Map Store Testimonials

By 're-casting' the every day tools we use to manage our world - such as atlases and calendars - in the form of visually structured, multi functional, digital knowledge maps, we can more easily connect with existing international, national & locally produced knowledge resources. This helps us, our communities and organisations avoid re-inventing wheels, better connect with each other, and do what we need to do quicker, easier and with a lot less stress 😉

I am managing IT global projects with team members and stakeholders in different countries / continents. This calendar [knowledge map] application enable at a glance to see bank holidays / national / religious events with an explanation in addition. Those explanations are a great facilitator to develop team spirit during our virtual meeting as I can exchange with each attendant on her/his national event.

Great to have all the links in the Travellers Knowledge Atlas in a single file. I downloaded it to my phone so I can look at it whenever I need to. I can also connect with the basic info I need with one click from the map rather than wading through google search results, especially handy when internet connection is limited. Have used for work stuff too.

Featured Knowledge Map

Annual Calendars - Base

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Our Annual Base Calendar knowledge maps are a versatile, ‘thumb & brain friendly’ desktop (or even ‘in the field’) fully interactive MindManager / HTML knowledge calendar map that provides a solid base from which to record and plan all aspects of your professional and / or personal life – such as events and projects (along with all the associated information and links etc.) – for the specific (Gregorian (‘Western’) calendar) year. They also provide the base visual knowledge framework for any other ‘annual calendar’ knowledge maps we create for that year (eg. our ‘Annual World Calendars‘).

There are 12 main branches for the months of the specifc year, each with 28-31 sub-branches for each day of the month, all arranged in a vertically branching (‘org-tree’) layout to form a calendar grid. Both ‘Month’ and ‘Day’ knowledge seed branches have a rich range of contextual knowledge elements visibly embedded within them or attached to them (most of which are unique to MindManager)….

Bespoke icon image unique to each specific time interval branch eg.;

Rich (ie. variably formatted) text uniquely labelling each specific time interval branch eg. ‘1 Jan 2025 Wed’;

Spreadsheet table ‘traditional’ monthly calendar grid embedded in specific month branches provides a quick reference for what dates fall on what days of the week;

Time-related index marker tags for all time intervals – years, quarters, months, weeks & days, in both single (YYYY) and business year (YYYY/YY) format – with most already attached to the appropriate branches to enable map filtering;

Internal hyperlinks between ‘parent’ month and ‘sub’ day branches enable quick navigation around the map;

External hyperlinks to official / definitive / ‘plain old useful’ public domain knowledge resources about the generic and specific month / day – and events thereon – such as ‘on this day’ type sites like Days of the Year, National Today, On This Day & Time and Date, and the Wikipedia chronicle portal page for generic or specific days – help you plan the future or remember the past; and

Additional Time Interval map sub-branch collections (and associated tags) for both longer intervals (weeks and quarters) that can be added to the map to further structure the months and days of the specified year; and shorter intervals (hours, minutes and seconds) to plan / chronicle individual days – and events or projects thereon – to greater detail as required (with even more compatible branches to build even more timelines available from our Time Templates Map).

See the MAP LEGEND branch for a full description of all the different types of branches – and all the knowledge elements embedded within them or attached to them – that make up this knowledge map.

All these elements combine to create intuitive to navigate, Annual Base Knowledge Calendar maps that provide a rich ‘base level’ of contextual knowledge & knowledge resource links about every day of every month of the specified year. They can be turned to multiple purposes, be it planning for tomorrow, or a day years in the future as we aim to always have maps for at least the next 10 years available in our store, to reconstructing timelines of days past as maps for previous years remain available to buy.

They are also a source of year-specific, knowledge-rich calendar content in any of your other maps for when you want ‘more than just the visuals’, or when you want to ‘build out on top of’ with your own content (some of it perhaps sourced from the linked knowledge resources) to create you own, bespoke knowledge calendar map for the year.

And even if you ‘just’ use it ‘as is’ as a straightforward calendar, as the days and months pass it will build into a ‘single source’, stand-alone, easily storable, retrieavable, shareable & searchable, visual archive of your year.

HTML MAP USER TIPS

The HTML5 (.html) map enables you to start working with the knowledge straight away as all you need is a device with a browser. Although it is read only, it still has all the content – and most of the interactivity – of the original MindManager map (from which it has been exported), and it can be viewed by anybody, in any modern web browser software, on any digital device, without the need for any software plugins, as stand-alone files or embedded in web pages, on(or off)-line (once downloaded). There is much to explore….

Reference resource – The primary purpose of this HTML knowledge map is as a visually structured, ‘stand-alone’ reference calendar – a record of what day of the month falls on what day of the week for a specific year – with the addition of links to external, official / definitive / ‘plain old useful’ public domain knowledge resources about the generic or specific month or date thanks to MindManager’s ‘multiple hyperllinks on a single branch’ feature :-).
Shareable resource – If you are viewing this HTML map via a URL generated by MindManager’s powerful Publishing platform – not only can you share that URL of the map as a whole, but if you right click a branch you will get a ‘Link to this topic’ option. When the link generated is subsequently clicked, the map will open in the browser tab focused on that branch! (how cool is that? :-0
Interactive resource – Explore the interactive features eg. query it by performing a map filter using attached tags (if present eg. there are no tags in ‘Basic’ maps) to hide / show particular branches, and then screenshot / print the results.

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Next level – Once you are proficient with using this read-only HTML knowledge map and feel you want to take things to the next level by editing or amending it any way (or even start making your own maps!), you can start by working with the original MindManager (.mmap) map file that was also part of the product download, in conjunction with the free 30 day trial version of MindManager at any time.

MINDMANAGER MAP USER TIPS

Note to work with the MindManager (.mmap) map, you will need a copy of MindManager software (a 30 day free trial version can be downloaded from the MindManager website).

For This Map
As well as ‘full featured viewing and interactive querying & filtering, MindManager software users are free to edit, add to, adapt and/or re-purpose this map in whole or in part, and/or use it as a source of content that can be added to your own existing maps. For example…

Create your own ‘living calendar / diary to plan, and run, your life – Plan your year and days ahead and record whatever events and appointments (not to mention thoughts, hopes and dreams 🙂 you want to on a chronological basis, be it for work, family, hobbies, personal journal or blog, whatever. For example….
– use the notes panel attached to the month / day branches to give you a ‘heads up’ with forward planning, especially when you know something is likely to happen around then but don’t yet know exactly when it is going to happen eg. “professional association conference in middle of October”.
– mark up Public Holidays by tagging day branches with the ‘Public Holiday’ tag from the ‘TIME – Day Type’ group (the ‘Day – Holiday (Public)’ SMART rule will then change the Day branch fill colour to orange).
– don’t stop at just recording that a meeting or conference is happening by adding a sub-branch to the appropriate day branch, copy and paste the agenda as a note / sub-branches and run the meeting using the map, adding notes and actions as you go for ‘instant minutes’, that can be easily shared.
Note – Use the Additional Time Interval sub-branches (and associated tags) to build your calendar / diary….
– longer interval branches (weeks and quarters) can be added to the map to further structure the months and days of the year;
– shorter interval branches (hours, minutes and seconds) can be added to plan individual days – and events or projects thereon – to greater detail as required;
– even more time interval branches to build even more timelines are available from our ‘Time Related Templates Map‘ .
Digital Archive – As the days and months pass, your calendar map file gradually becomes your permanent digital record of what you – and maybe the rest of your team (including that guy that left 6 months ago!) – did when, along with all the supporting details that were recorded at the time, preserved to be re-discovered ‘in context’ if required at some unknown time in the future (maybe long after event websites may have disappeared to the Great Server In The Sky….). This readily accessible archive ls also a great time-saver when re-using map branches for regularly scheduled events. Imagine, a single file source of everything that happened over the course of a year, for any year (as well as calendar maps for the next 10 years, we also aim to always have maps for the last 10 years available in our mapstore so you can look back and revisit, as well as look forward and anticipate).
A source of time-related content for use in other maps – Use the components of the map in whole or in part – be it the whole branches or the unique bespoke images, embedded spreadsheet calendar grids, or index marker tags embedded within or attached to them – to add a year / quarter /month / week / day specific temporal dimension to other MindManager maps (indeed why not go the full hog and add them to your Map Parts archive?). For example….
– add a mini calendar of specific days to a project map to help plan out what’s happening.
– copy and paste a ‘TIME -’ tag group to an existing map, assign to branches as appropriate, and interactively filter using your new found ‘temporal-intelligence’ 😉
Personalise – Make the calendar map your own….
– Change the Weekend days by changing the ‘Day- Weekends’ SMART rule that controls their visual formatting (‘Weekend Days’ are set to be topics tagged as ‘Sat’ and ‘Sun’ by default, change the triggers to be any days of the week you want).
– Create your own annual calendar map for your ‘business year’ by ‘mixing & matching’ months from the annual calendar maps for sequential years as required.

General User Tips
These tips apply when working with any of our knowledge map….

Work on a copy – We would always recommend users work on a duplicate copy of this map for each project and keep the original download file in a safe place for future working.
Strip out what you don’t need – With the original safe, you can now strip out the map content you don’t need for your project – the floating ‘meta’ and Map Legend branches, the central topic text – so the project map is as small and efficient as possible from the outset (though make sure there isn’t a more stripped back version of the map already available on the map store).
Experiment – Don’t be afraid to play about with all the settings that control the visual appearance…
– Choose which of the embedded / attached elements are displayed on all of the map branches by selecting them at ‘View > Detail > Show/Hide’. Note that in our maps Tags are turned off by default.
– Switch between the Modern and Legacy Topic Info display settings at ‘View > Detail > Topic Info > Topic Info Display Settings’, where individual elements that are shown on the card can also be toggled on or off. Note we create our maps in the Legacy style by preferfence, but Topic info cards can always be turned on / off for individual branches, even in the Legacy style, using ‘Ctrl + Alt + I’.
– Hide / Show Embedded Topic Properties embedded on individual branches by clicking on the green arrow on the right of each each branch. (Note if you select a number of branches and do the action on one of them, it does it for all of them).
Change colours, sizes and shapes – The size, shape, and colour of each map branch and branch text is controlled initially by a ‘Topic Style’ and then perhaps conditionally modified by a ‘Smart Rule’ based on one or more attached tags. Don’t be afraid to play about with them, perhaps even creating your own ‘house style’.
Go big – MindManager has many unique functions available – such as topic properties (single data cells), formulas and smart rules – why not incorporate some of them as you build on your new map?

Explore the other product tabs for…

comprehensive descriptions of the General Features, Knowledge Seed Branches and Knowledge Link Collections that make up this knowledge map.
the full range of Buying Options (this map may also be available as part of one or more product bundles of related maps).

Don’t forget that you can also View / Download a sample map in MindManager (.mmap) or HTML5 (.html) format.

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Sample Maps

To view the ‘cut down’ sample map in a new tab in your browser courtesy of MindManager’s unique Publishing feature, click the button below (it will take 30 seconds to a minute to load). If viewing on a phone you will need to scroll to the right to view the on-screen user instructions.

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To download the sample map as both original MindManager (.mmap) and HTML5 (.html) files for more thorough offline investigation, complete the form below and the download links will be sent to the email address you supply.