Knowledge Mappers is a digital mapping consultancy & publishing company with a unique mix of geographic & knowledge mapping expertise. Our ground-breaking products & services visually connect individuals, teams, organisations & communities with the knowledge resources that they need… to do what they need to do… quicker, easier, and with a lot less stress :-)
Professionally crafted & curated knowledge maps of real world & conceptual ‘spaces’ of human interest & endeavour. Like all maps, they are visually structured registers of the ‘things’ that define the ‘space’, and the ‘spatial’ relationships between them. But they are also registers of – and portals to – official / definitive / ‘plain old useful’ knowledge resources about those ‘things’ available in the public domain. Maps can be downloaded in both original MindManager (.mmap) and HTML5 format, and so can be viewed in any browser, on any device, without the need for adtitonal plugins.
The School Travel Health Check (STHC) Spatial Analysis Service is an example of a GI consultancy project for one local authority in 2004 that soon “grew arms and legs” to become a ground-breaking, nationally available service. It provides high quality, spatial intelligence to local authorities, school communities and other stakeholders interested in how children travel to school, from where, and how far they travel to get there.
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Our Annual Base Knowledge Calendar maps are versatile, ‘thumb & brain friendly’, fully interactive MindManager / HTML calendar knowledge maps that can be used to plan & record all aspects of your professional and / or personal life – such as events & projects (along with all their associated information and links etc.) – for the specified (Gregorian (‘Western’) calendar) year. It’s also a source of year-specific map content for use in other maps, and is a base upon which to build more specialised calendar maps for the year (eg. it is the base for the various editions of our Annual World Events Calendar for the coresponding year).
With their rich ‘base level’ of embedded and attached contextual knowledge & knowledge resource links about every day of every month of the specific year, our Annual Base Knowledge Calendar maps enable you to plan better 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 (or even reconstruct days past as maps for previous years remain available to buy). And as the days and months pass, your calendar map builds into a ‘single source’, stand-alone, easily storable, retrieavable, shareable & searchable, visual archive of your year.
Price: £12.99 (ex. GB VAT)
The buttons are to buy this particular Annual Calendar Map for the current year (2026). However it can also be purchased as part of a CALENDAR MAP BUNDLE of the current + the next 1, 2, 5 or 10 years (with commensurate savings on the cover price for a single year) – see the
Buy (All Years) tab.
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.
You can download the sample map as both original MindManager (.mmap) and HTML5 (.html) files in the full description tab below.
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.
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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….
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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…
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General User Tips
These tips apply when working with any of our knowledge map….
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Don’t forget that you can also
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Download a sample map in MindManager (.mmap) or HTML5 (.html) format.
Price: £12.99 (ex. GB VAT)
The buttons are to buy this particular Annual Calendar Map for the current year (2026). However it can also be purchased as part of a CALENDAR MAP BUNDLE of the current + the next 1, 2, 5 or 10 years (with commensurate savings on the cover price for a single year) – see the
Buy (All Years) tab.
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.
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.
Watch the brief explainer videos of what’s what below before viewing / downloading a sample of this map to play with….
Annual Base Knowledge Calendar Maps
All the ‘ADD TO CART’ & ‘BUY NOW’ Buying Options for these knowledge maps – as single maps and as part of one or more MAP BUNDLES – can be accessed below.
Buy them as part of a MAP BUNDLE and you could save up to 25% 🙂
Annual Base Knowledge Calendar Maps – RELATIVE FUTURE
The ‘ADD TO CART’ & ‘BUY NOW’ Buying Options listed here are for BUNDLES of Annual Base Knowledge Calendar maps for Future Years relative to the Current Year (2025). There are BUNDLES with calendars for the Current + Next 1, 2, 5 & 10 years – the bigger the bundle, the more you save – up to 25% 🙂
Note annual calendar maps for single years can be purchased within the relevant RELEVANT listing for the year (with a 10 Map DECADE BUNDLE eventually becoming available).
Here are some of the most important notes about buying from this online map store (but please refer to our Digital Poducts Terms & Conditions for full information)….
i) Pricing Currency – All the maps on this online map store are priced in British Punds Sterling (GBP).
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ii) Sales Tax – The prices shown throughout this store do not include GB VAT (@20%), which will be added at the checkout if applicable.
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iii) Licensing – You are buying a single user licence, for your own internal personal or business use. Please contact us if you wish….
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iv) Calendar maps for any year(s) (or ‘types’) on request – No calendar listed for the year you are interested in? Currently we are concentrating on creating calendars for this year and a growing number of years either side of it, but we are happy to create calendar maps for any year or years you want – or even different ‘types’ of calendar for the years already mapped (eg. including your own time-dependant information) – as part of our bespoke mapping service. Please get in touch with us to discuss your requirements.
Annual Base Knowledge Calendar Maps – RELATIVE PAST
The ‘ADD TO CART’ & ‘BUY NOW’ Buying Options listed here are for BUNDLES of Annual Base Knowledge Calendar maps for Previous Years relative to the Current Year (2025). The aspiration is to mirror the FUTURE BUNDLES with calendars for the Current + Previous 1, 2, 5 & 10 years, however at the moment only the THIS YEAR + LAST YEAR BUNDLE is available to buy. The rest will appear here in due course once we finally catch up with ourseleves (but if you have urgent need of them, please get in touch and we’ll see what we can do for you).
Note annual calendar maps for single years can be purchased within the relevant RELEVANT listing for the year (with a 10 Map DECADE BUNDLE eventually becoming available).
Here are some of the most important notes about buying from this online map store (but please refer to our Digital Poducts Terms & Conditions for full information)….
i) Pricing Currency – All the maps on this online map store are priced in British Punds Sterling (GBP).
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ii) Sales Tax – The prices shown throughout this store do not include GB VAT (@20%), which will be added at the checkout if applicable.
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iii) Licensing – You are buying a single user licence, for your own internal personal or business use. Please contact us if you wish….
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iv) Calendar maps for any year(s) (or ‘types’) on request – No calendar listed for the year you are interested in? Currently we are concentrating on creating calendars for this year and a growing number of years either side of it, but we are happy to create calendar maps for any year or years you want – or even different ‘types’ of calendar for the years already mapped (eg. including your own time-dependant information) – as part of our bespoke mapping service. Please get in touch with us to discuss your requirements.
Annual Base Knowledge Calendar Maps – BY DECADE (2020’s)
The ‘ADD TO CART’ & ‘BUY NOW’ Buying Options listed here are for all the individual Annual Base Knowledge Calendar maps available for each year of the decade of the 2020’s. The aspiration is to have complete coverage for the whole decade, however we’re not quite there yet. Once we are, we will also offer them all as a discounted 10 Map DECADE BUNDLE (but if you have urgent need of a map that’s not there, please get in touch and we’ll see what we can do for you).
Here are some of the most important notes about buying from this online map store (but please refer to our Digital Poducts Terms & Conditions for full information)….
i) Pricing Currency – All the maps on this online map store are priced in British Punds Sterling (GBP).
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ii) Sales Tax – The prices shown throughout this store do not include GB VAT (@20%), which will be added at the checkout if applicable.
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iii) Licensing – You are buying a single user licence, for your own internal personal or business use. Please contact us if you wish….
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iv) Calendar maps for any year(s) (or ‘types’) on request – No calendar listed for the year you are interested in? Currently we are concentrating on creating calendars for this year and a growing number of years either side of it, but we are happy to create calendar maps for any year or years you want – or even different ‘types’ of calendar for the years already mapped (eg. including your own time-dependant information) – as part of our bespoke mapping service. Please get in touch with us to discuss your requirements.
Annual Base Knowledge Calendar Maps – BY DECADE (2030’s)
The ‘ADD TO CART’ & ‘BUY NOW’ Buying Options listed here are for all the individual Annual Base Knowledge Calendar maps available for each year of the decade of the 2030’s. The aspiration is to have complete coverage for the whole decade, however we’re not quite there yet. Once we are, we will also offer them all as a discounted 10 Map DECADE BUNDLE (but if you have urgent need of a map that’s not there, please get in touch and we’ll see what we can do for you).
Here are some of the most important notes about buying from this online map store (but please refer to our Digital Poducts Terms & Conditions for full information)….
i) Pricing Currency – All the maps on this online map store are priced in British Punds Sterling (GBP).
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ii) Sales Tax – The prices shown throughout this store do not include GB VAT (@20%), which will be added at the checkout if applicable.
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iii) Licensing – You are buying a single user licence, for your own internal personal or business use. Please contact us if you wish….
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iv) Calendar maps for any year(s) (or ‘types’) on request – No calendar listed for the year you are interested in? Currently we are concentrating on creating calendars for this year and a growing number of years either side of it, but we are happy to create calendar maps for any year or years you want – or even different ‘types’ of calendar for the years already mapped (eg. including your own time-dependant information) – as part of our bespoke mapping service. Please get in touch with us to discuss your requirements.
Knowledge seed branches are the foundation of our knowledge maps, with each seed branch representing a particular ‘building block’ (or an aspect of it) that we humans use to structure, and make sense of, the ‘real world’ we live in e.g. geographic areas and their subdivisions in our World Atlas Maps, time and it’s sub-division into manageable chunks in our Annual Calendar Maps etc. Seed branches are ‘visual knowledge rich’, with each branch having a mix of knowledge elements (most of which are unque to MindManger) embedded within it, or attached to it, that convey a ‘base level’ of core knowledge about the ‘building block’ along with links to the source knowledge resources i.e. they are mini knowledge portals in their own right.
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The ‘knowledge elements’ are a mix of the following (i.e. not all elements are used in every seed branch)…
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Outline Shape – The outline shape may convey knowledge about some aspect of the subject of the branch e.g. the nature of a geographic adminsitrative area’s borders with respect to the sea…
Colour – The colour of the fill / text may convey knowledge about some aspect of the subject of the branch. For example in our Political Knowledge Maps the colours associated with the main political parties are used throughout to make it easier to ‘see at a glance’ what the current situation is, such as the fill of the elected member branch being coloured by their political party, which in turn informs the fill colour of the constituency branch, which is also reflected in the cells of the embedded elections results spreadsheet table.
Image [Embedded] – Images – such as thumbnail location maps, flags, icons, people profile pictures etc. – provide a unique visual element that can quickly both convey knowledge to users and help them to navigate their way through the map. MindManager only allows a single image to be embedded within a branch, which may be sufficient for the requirements, but with a bit of forethought (and some software ‘jigery pokery’ 🙂) we can also create one that incorporates more than one visual element (e.g. a logo and a location map) so that, like the ‘rich’ branch text, more core knowledge can be ‘packed in’ to a single branch without visually overwhelming the user.
Text [Embedded] – MindManager’s unique ability to handle ‘rich’ text – i.e. text that can have variably formatted individual chatracters within a single text ‘string’ – means we can pack several different pieces of ‘core knowledge’ into the text of a single branch without it visually overwhelming the user. For example…
The Name of a Geographic Area
(The official Unique Identifying Code(s))
The Type of Geographic Area
Note [Attached] – Contains supplementary information with all the elements of a word processed page – variably formatted (‘rich’) text, hyperlinks, tables and images.
Data Elements [Embedded] – MindManager has 2 unique ways to add contextual ‘facts & figures’ (i.e. text and number fields) to individual branches so that they are visible to the user (though only one can be used on any given branch at a time)…
Index Marker Tags [Attached] – Arranged in groups and added to individual branches as appropriate, index marker tags add contextual knowledge, enable dynamic filtering to hide / show map content, aid internal navigation and can be used as one of the triggers to visually format the branch using MindManager’s Smart (‘conditional formatting’) Rules feature.
Multiple Hyperlinks [Attached] – Another unique feature, multiple links to a range of official / definitive / plain old useful knowledge resources about the subject of the seed branch – usually selected from the full range of general & geographic knowledge resource collections – help turn the map into a knowledge portal without adding to the visual clutter.
All the seed branches and their associated embedded / attached contextual knowledge elements used in this map are described in detail below…
Months are the top level hierarchy in any annual calendar (after the year of course), but the month knowledge seed branches in our maps provide additional contextual knowledge embedded within, and attached to, them to turbo charge your calendar use….
Specific Month Of The Specific Year Seed Branch
Fill Colour
Image
Text
Note
Spreadsheet Table
Index Marker Tags & Groups
Attached Hyperlinks
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MindManager provides an unparalleled range of ‘information cartography’ functionality that enables contextual knowledge to be visibly embedded and attached to map branches in multiple ways….
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Fill Colour
The dark grey colour marks this seed branch out as the one forming the main framework of the map, which is unsurprising as Months are the top level hierarchy in any annual calendar.
The ‘first couple’ of branch levels have a lot of ‘heavy lifting’ to as they define both the visual, and logical, layout of the map, and so are usually dark grey in order to create a solid visual base to contrast with the colours elsewhere, with the colour set by the ‘topic style’.
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Image: Specific Month & Year Icon
This image is a bespoke icon tcreated by us that uniquely identifies the specifc month of the specific year using a calendar image, which shows the specific year above the name of the month, abbreviated to the first 3 letters eg. ‘2025 Jan’
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Note(s)
i) The icon was originally designed and created by us as a 48 x 48 pixel PNG file, optimised to minimize the file size (typically 2-3 KBs).
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Text: Specific Month & Year
A richly formatted text string of the specific month name in full and the year eg. ‘January 2025’.
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Note: Additional Contextual Information About Month
Occasionally (i.e. most branches don’t have one) there may be additional information about the month attached to the seed branch as a note to provide further contextual knowledge to assist users.
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Spreadsheet Table: Specific Monthly Calendar Grid
This self-contained embedded spreadsheet table showing all the days of the specific month in terms of the 7 days of the week in a traditional calendar grid layout for quick reference. The weekend days of saturday and sunday are differentiated by background shading.
Note(s)
i) This embedded feature can be hidden / shown by clicking the green toggle arrow just above the top right corner of the embedded feature.
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Index Marker Tags & Groups: Various
A variety of Index Markers arranged into groups are used throughout the map to tag (i.e. attach to) branches as appropriate. They serve multiple functions…
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As this is a Calendar map, unsurprisingly all the tags in it are TIME tags, covering different time intervals – years, quarters, months, weeks, & days (see notes below). Other than the time interval covered, there are 2 main differences between the different tag groups….
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MONTH TAGS
The following tags relate to the time interval of Calendar Months, the subject nature of this Specific month of the specific year’ seed branch, and have already been attached to it…
TIME – MONTHS (Mmm YYYY) – YYYY [ATTACHED] – The specific months of the specific Gregorian Calendar year as abbreviated text and year – 12 tags from eg. ‘Jan 2025’ to ‘Dec 2025’.
TIME – MONTHS (MNN-YYYY) – YYYY [ATTACHED] – The specific months of the Gregorian Calendar year as a numerical sequence – 12 tags from eg. ‘M01-2025’ to ‘M12-2025’.
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The following MONTH tags have not been attached to any branches…
TIME – MONTHS (MNN-YYYY/YY) [NOT ATTACHED] – The months of the 2 business years straddling the particular calendar year of the map with the month in numeric sequence format eg. ‘M01-2023/24’ and ‘M01-2024/25’ (2 groups of 12 tags from ‘M01-YYYY/YY’ to ‘M12-YYYY/YY’).
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Note(s)
i) The names of the marker tag groups are prefixed acccording to the ‘type’ of marker tags they contain..
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Attached Hyperlinks: Multiple
See next section for full details
Specific Month of the Specific Year Seed Branch
Introduction
Internal Navigation Links ![]()
External Knowledge Resource Links
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Introduction
Uniquely to MindManger, a single map branch can have multiple hyperlinks attached to it, which can be a mixture of any of the following 4 ‘types’….
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If there is only one link attached to a branch then the icon indicated above will be displayed at the end of it, and clicking on the icon will ‘activate’ the link. However if a branch has more than one hyperlink attached to it, the single link icon will be replaced by a chain link icon
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Most of the links in our knowledge maps will be to external URLs (with occasional e-mail links if the map includes people such as elected representatives), but there are usually also a few internal links to other map branches from the main framework and seed branches to improve internal navigation. Though it is possible to attach files to maps, it is not something that we do so that we can keep the file size to a minimum, however there may also be the occasional direct link to an online PDF file (i.e. clicking the link will immediately download the file to your device).
Finally it should be pointed out that, even though we have differentiated the links attached to this seed branch into different ‘types’, this is for descriptive convenience only as they are all displayed on a single list. However we usually add them such that they display in the following order…
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Internal Navigation Links
Internal hyperlinks enable users to quickly jump from one branch to another without any of that tiresome scrolling & expanding, or searching i.e. internal navigation.
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The following internal links are attached to this seed branch…
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Days of the month sub-branches – The Month branch has internal hyperlinks to each day of that month sub-branch, which provides a means of quickly navigating to it.
Note(s)
i) Each day of the month sub-branch also has an internal hyperlink back to this ‘parent’ month branch, so users can quickly jump back and forth between days.
ii) Within MindManger the ‘Dates’ and ‘Months’ index marker tags used throughout the calendar map seed branches also provide another means of quick internal navigation as users can just click on the branches listed under each tag in the Index Marker Pane and the map will refocus on it.
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External Knowledge Resource Links
Mutiple hyperlinks to original official / definitive / plain old useful knowledge sources, freely available in the online public domain, is one of the main features of our knowledge maps. By doing this…
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In this seed branch external links are to resources about the months of the year, both generic (eg. ‘January’) and specific (eg. January 2024). They are a mixture of…
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The following knowledge resource links are attached to this seed branch…
Note that resources about specific months that are still in the future will not be populated yet, and the link may not even work (but if future you is reading this then they will 😉 ).
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Days of the Year – The listing of the ‘National Days’ (ie. the mix of religious and civic observances marked by many groups & individuals) taking place in this month (e.g. ‘January‘) in the current year (or next year if that month has already past) on one of the most popular ‘Holidays on this generic day’ websites.
National Today – The listing of the ‘holidays’ (ie. the mix of religious and civic observances marked by many groups & individuals) taking place in this month (e.g. ‘January‘) in the current year (or next year if that month has already past) on the National Today website.
On This Day – What happened in this Specific Month ‘in history’ (e.g. ‘January 2024‘) as a list of all ‘events’ in the month by ascending date.
Wikipedia – Generic Month Article – Main Wikipedia article about the generic month (e.g. ‘January‘).
Wikipedia – Category: Generic Month – Wikipedia listing of subcategories and pages in the category for the generic month (e.g. ‘January‘).
Wikipedia – Category: Generic Month Observances – Wikipedia listing of subcategories and pages in the category for observances occuring in the generic month e.g. ‘January Observances‘.
Wikipedia – Worldwide Current Events Portal for Specific Month – Listing on the Wikipedia ‘Current Events’ portal for the specific month e.g. ‘January 2024‘.
Days are the 2nd level hierarchy in any annual calendar, but the day knowledge seed branches in our maps provide additional contextual knowledge embedded within them and attached to them to supercharge your calendar use…..
Specific Day of the Specific Month Seed Branch
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Text
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Index Marker Tags & Groups
Attached Hyperlinks
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MindManager provides an unparalleled range of ‘information cartography’ functionality that enables contextual knowledge to be visibly embedded and attached to map branches in multiple ways….
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Fill Colour: Type of Day
Day branches are shaded according to the usual differentiation between days of the week – working days (mon-fri by default), and weekends (sat & sun by default).
Note(s)
i) Branch shading is controlled by a Smart Rule (a unique MindManager feature) triggered by the ‘TIME – Days of the week’ index marker tag – ‘Weekend Days’ are set to be topics tagged as ‘Sat’ and ‘Sun’ by default. MindManager users can easily change this rule to set weekends as any days of the week they want (and add further rules as required eg. adding their own public holidays, leave days etc.).
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Image: Specific Day of the Specific Month & Year Icon
This image is a bespoke icon created by us that uniquely identifies the specific day of the specific month & year using a double calendar image. The left hand calendar contains the specific year above the name of the month (abbreviated to the first 3 letters), whilst the right hand one contains the day of the week (abbreviated to the first 3 letters) above the numerical day of the month (so from 1 to 31) eg. ‘ 2025 Jan 1 Wed’
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Note(s)
i) The icon was originally designed and created by us as a 96 x 48 pixel PNG file, optimised to minimize the file size (typically 2-3 KBs).
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Text: Specific Date & Day of the Specific Month & Year Name
A richly formatted text string of the specific date (year, month & day of the month) and day of the week in the format eg. ‘1 Jan 2025 Wed’. The day of the week is in normal (as opposed to bold) font, and moved to the line below, to improve ‘readbility’.
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Note: Additional Contextual Information About Day
Occasionally (i.e. most branches don’t have one) there may be additional information about the day attached to the seed branch as a note to provide further contextual knowledge to assist users.
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Index Marker Tags & Groups: Various
A variety of Index Markers arranged into groups are used throughout the map to tag (i.e. attach to) branches as appropriate. They serve multiple functions…
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As this is a Calendar map, unsurprisingly all the tags in it are TIME tags, covering different time intervals – years, quarters, months, weeks, & days (see notes below). Other than the time interval covered, there are 2 main differences between the different tag groups….
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DATE TAGS
The following tags relate to the time interval of Calendar Dates, the subject nature of this ‘specific day of the specific month of the specific year’ seed branch…
TIME – DATES (D Mmm) – Every generic date of the month, for each of the 12 months of the generic Gregorian Calendar year as abbreviated text and number – 365 tags from ‘Jan 1’ to ‘Dec 31’.
TIME – DATES (D Mmm YYYY DoW) – Every date of the specific year in the same format as the day branch text – 365/366 tags from eg. ‘1 Jan 2025 Wed’ to ’31 Dec 2025 Wed’.
TIME – DATES (DD/MM/YYYY) – Every date of the specific month, for each of the 12 months of the Gregorian Calendar year in the most commonly used numeric format – 365 tags from eg. ’01/01/2025′ to ’31/12/2025′.
TIME – DATES (MM/DD/YYYY) – Every date of the specific month, for each of the 12 months of the Gregorian Calendar year in ‘Amercan’ style numeric format (ie. months first) – 365 tags from eg. ’01/01/2025′ to ’12/31/2025′.
TIME – DATES (YYYY/MM/DD) – Every date of the specific month, for each of the 12 months of the Gregorian Calendar year in ‘year first’ numeric format – 365 tags from eg. ’01/01/2025′ to ’31/12/2025′.
Note(s)
i) This format is the only one in which the chronological order of the tags in the group will ‘survive’ a numeric sorting operation (ie. arrange ‘lowest to highest’ or ‘highest to lowest’).
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DAY TAGS
The following tags relate to the time interval of Calendar Dates, the subject nature of this ‘specific day of the specific month of the specific year’ seed branch…
TIME – DAYS (DNNN) – The seqential number of the day in the generic calendar year – 365 tags from eg. ‘D001’ to ‘D365’ (366 if it’s a leap year).
TIME – DAYS (DNNN-YYYY) – The seqential number of the day in the specific calendar year – 365 tags from eg. ‘D001-2025’ to ‘D365-2025’ (366 if it’s a leap year).
TIME – DAYS (DoW) – The days of the week abbreviated to the first 3 letters – 7 tags from ‘Mon’ to ‘Sun’.
Note(s)
i) The tags in this group are used to control the shading of ‘working’ and ‘weekend’ day branches by a Smart Rule in MindManager (a unique MindManager feature). ‘Weekend Days’ are set to be topics tagged as ‘Sat’ and ‘Sun’ by default but these can be changed within MindManager.
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TAGS NOT CURRENTLY ATTACHED TO THIS SEED BRANCH BUT ARE AVAILABLE FOR USE AS REQUIRED
The following tag groups are either for other time intervals not represented by branches in the calendar and/or they are specific to the user as to whether they want to include them, and which ones go where. Thus they have not been assigned to seed branches but they are available in the index marker pane of the map for MindManager users to use in this (or any other) map. Note they will not be visible in the HTML version.
TIME – Days (DNNN-YYYY/YY) – The seqential number of the days of the 2 business years straddling the particular calendar year of the map – 730 / 732 tags from eg. ‘D001-2024/25’ to ‘D356-2025/26’ (366 if it’s a leap year).
TIME – Days – Type – The type of day with respect to work & lifestyle. 4 tags in all…
Note(s)
i) The names of the marker tag groups are prefixed acccording to the ‘type’ of marker tags they contain..
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Attached Hyperlinks: Multiple
See next section for full details
Specific Day of the Specific Year Seed Branch
Introduction
Internal Navigation Links
External Knowledge Resource Links
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Introduction
Uniquely to MindManger, a single map branch can have multiple hyperlinks attached to it, which can be a mixture of any of the following 4 ‘types’….
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If there is only one link attached to a branch then the icon indicated above will be displayed at the end of it, and clicking on the icon will ‘activate’ the link. However if a branch has more than one hyperlink attached to it, the single link icon will be replaced by a chain link icon
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Most of the links in our knowledge maps will be to external URLs (with occasional e-mail links if the map includes people such as elected representatives), but there are usually also a few internal links to other map branches from the main framework and seed branches to improve internal navigation. Though it is possible to attach files to maps, it is not something that we do so that we can keep the file size to a minimum, however there may also be the occasional direct link to an online PDF file (i.e. clicking the link will immediately download the file to your device).
Finally it should be pointed out that, even though we have differentiated the links attached to this seed branch into different ‘types’, this is for descriptive convenience only as they are all displayed on a single list. However we usually add them such that they display in the following order…
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Internal Navigation Links
Internal hyperlinks enable users to quickly jump from one branch to another without any of that tiresome scrolling & expanding, or searching i.e. internal navigation.
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The following internal links are attached to this seed branch…
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Month parent branch – Each day of the month sub-branch has an internal hyperlink back to the parent month branch, which provides a means of quickly navigating to it.
Note(s)
i) Each Month branch also has internal hyperlinks to each day of that month sub-branch, so users can quickly jump back and forth between days.
ii) Within MindManger the ‘Dates’ and ‘Months’ index marker tags used throughout the calendar map seed branches also provide another means of quick internal navigation as users can just click on the branches listed under each tag in the Index Marker Pane and the map will refocus on it.
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External Knowledge Resource Links
Mutiple hyperlinks to original official / definitive / plain old useful knowledge sources, freely available in the online public domain, is one of the main features of our knowledge maps. By doing this…
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In this seed branch external links are to resources about the days of the year, both generic (eg. ‘1 January’) and specific (eg. 1 January 2025). They are a mixture of…
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The following knowledge resource links are attached to this seed branch…
Note that resources about specific dates that are still in the future will not be populated yet, and the link may not even work (but if future you is reading this then they will 😉 ).
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Days of the Year – List of ‘National Days’ (ie. the mix of religious and civic observances marked by many groups & individuals) that take place on this Generic Day of the Month (e.g. ‘National days on Mon Jan 1st‘) in the current year (or next year if that month has already past) on one of the most popular ‘Holidays on this generic day’ websites
National Today – List of ‘holidays’ that take place on this Generic Day of the Month (e.g. ‘January 1st Holidays‘) on another of the most popular ‘Holidays on this generic day’ websites.
On This Day – What happened on this Generic Day of the Month ‘in history’ (e.g. ‘Historical Events on January 1st‘). With over 215,000 entries, ‘On This Day’ is the world’s largest ‘on this day in history’ type website.
Time and Date – What happened on this Generic Day of the Month ‘in history’ (e.g. ‘On this day in history – January 1‘). It is less comprehensive than other ‘on this day in history’ websites, however it has many other great time-related functional features.
Wikipedia – Generic Day of the Year article – Main Wikipedia article about the generic day of the year / month (e.g. ‘January 1‘), which mostly consists of lists of Events, Births, Deaths and Observances .
Wikipedia – Worldwide Current Events Portal For The Specific Day – Listing on the Wikipedia ‘Current Events’ portal for the specific date e.g. ‘1 January 2024‘.
The sub-branches here are for other time intervals – longer or shorter than a month or day – and can be….
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And so they are presented here for users to use if they wish to re-structure / augment this calendar map with these additional time sub-divisions……
Additional Potential Seed Branches – Hours, Minutes & Seconds
The main purpose of these additional branches of shorter time intervals – hours, minutes and seconds in a day – is to enable users to construct their own calendar / diary / timeline maps to the level of chronological detail they require by copying and pasting them as sub-branches, sub-sub-branches etc. on the day branches in the main body of the map as required eg. to record appointments, plan out a meeting or other event, or editing a video project etc.
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The additional time interval branches in this sub-collection are as follows…
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Hours in a Day
2 alternative format sub-collections of branches for all of the ‘Hours’ in a whole day, arranged ‘top to bottom’ or ‘bottom to top’…
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Minutes in an Hour
4 alternative format sub-collections of branches for the ‘Minutes’ in a single hour, arranged ‘top to bottom’ or ‘bottom to top’…
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Seconds in a Minute
A single format sub-collection of branches for the ‘Seconds’ in a single minute, arranged ‘top to bottom’ or ‘bottom to top’…
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Note(s)
i) Listing order – The collections of smaller time interval sub-branches are arranged in both ‘Top to bottom’ and ‘Bottom to top’ (ie. alphabetical / numerical order or reverse order) in order to give users maximum flexibility when adding them to map branches (not all can be changed with a simple ‘reverse sort’!).
ii) Accompanying Index Marker Tags – Unlike the longer time intervals these do not have corresponding index marker tags (but there’s nothing to stop users from making their own if they want).
iii) Style – As with the other time branches in the main body of the map, the visual formatting of each ‘type’ of time interval branch is controlled by a corresponding ‘Topic Style’, which users are free to alter to suit their own requirements.
iv) Further time interval template branches – There are further time interval branches available to use with our Calendar Knowledge maps in our Time Templates Map, which can be purchased from our map store.
v) Use in other maps – As with any of the other elements of this map, these additional sub-branch collections can be used in other maps, whether or not they are ‘time maps’.
vi) MindManager users only – As with any other functionality that isn’t ‘read only’, the above suggestions can only be enacted by MindManager users.
Additional Potential Seed Branches – Years, Quarters & Weeks
The sub-branches here are for the longer time periods that are sometimes used to divide up the calendar year – weeks and quarters – often by companies and other sorts of organisations.
However unlike the months of the year and the days of the week, they are ambiguous….
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And so they are presented here for users to insert as parent branches to create additional ‘time layers’ that re-structure the months and days of your specific year as require.
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The additional time interval branches in this sub-collection are as follows…
3 different sub-branch collections – one for a single year and 2 for the business years that straddle the calendar year …
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Single Calendar Year (YYYY)
3 different sub-branch collections for the Year, Quarters and Weeks…
Year – Single branch with….
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Quarters in the Year – 4 branches with….
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Weeks in a Year – 52 branches with….
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Business Calendar Years (YYYY/YY)
2 identical sub-branch collections for each business year that straddle the calendar year eg for the ‘2025’ there are collections for ‘2024/25’ and ‘2025/26’, each with 3 different sub-branch collections for the Year, Quarters and Weeks…
Year – Single branch with….
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Quarters in the Year – 4 branches with….
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Weeks in a Year – 52 branches with….
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Note(s)
i) Listing order – The collections of longer time interval sub-branches are arranged in ‘Top to bottom’ (ie. ascending alphabetical / numerical order) only.
ii) Accompanying Index Marker Tags – As with the other time branches in the main body of the map, each specific year, quarter & week sub-branch is tagged from the corresponding specific year tag group, which adds flexibility and functionality to the map eg. further tagging, filtering and internal navigation. Also note that these tags also enable a ‘half-way house’ alternative to physically restructuring the map to introduce these additional sub-divisions. Instead users could just assign the ‘Week’ and ‘Quarter’ tags to the ‘Day’ and ‘Month’ branches as appropriate.
iii) Style – As with the other time branches in the main body of the map, the visual formatting of each ‘type’ of time interval branch is controlled by a corresponding ‘Topic Style’, which users are free to alter to suit their own requirements.
iv) Further time interval template branches – There are further time interval branches available to use with our Calendar Knowledge maps in our Time Templates Map, which can be purchased from our map store.
v) Use in other maps – As with any of the other elements of this map, these additional sub-branch collections can be used in other maps, whether or not they are ‘time maps’.
vi) MindManager users only – As with any other functionality that isn’t ‘read only’, the above suggestions can only be enacted by MindManager users.
Hyperlinks to official / definitive / ‘plain old useful’ knowledge resources found in the public domain is one of the main focus of our knowledge maps. Links are added to our maps in 2 ways….
Multiple Hyperlinks Attached To Seed Branches – MindManager has the unique ability to attach multiple hyperlinks to a single map branch. This means that….
The multiple hyperlinks attached to the different types of knowledge seed branches in this map are already detailed in the ‘Seed Branches’ tab.
Knowledge Link Sub-Branch Collections – Sub-branches – each with a single attached hyperlink to an external knowledge resource – are grouped into related collections, such as ‘General Knowledge Resources’ or ‘Geographic Knowledge Resources’. This makes for easier, more ‘thumb friendly’ browsing & discovery of knowledge resources, which helps in more intensive activities like prolonged desktop research.
The knowledge link sub-branch collections in this map are detailed below….
As a generic map there are no sub-branch collections of single links to knowledge resources. There are however selected multiple links on seed branches.
Title: YYYY Calendar – Base
File Name: Calendar_YYYY_Base_v6-0
File Sizes: FULL – MindManager (.mmap) – 3.5 MB; HTML5 (.html) – 9.2 MB; SAMPLE – MindManager (.mmap) – X.X MB; HTML5 (.html) – X.X MB
Author: Knowledge Mappers Ltd.
ID: #Various
Map Store URL: https://knowledgemappers.com/map-store/time-based-calendar-maps/annual-calendars-base/
Number of Branches (‘Topics’): 1,056 (1,057 Leap Year)
Number of Hyperlinks: 3,033 (3,042 Leap Year)
Number of Index Marger Tag Groups: 18
Number of Idividual Index Marger Tags: 3,875 (754 Unassigned)
Publication Date(s): October 2024 (latest), October 2020, February 2019, January 2017, June 2007, January 2006
Language: English (UK)
Nationality: n/a
Geographic Level: n/a
Time Base: Gregorian Calendar
Layout: Organisation Tree (ORG-TRE) map
Map Theme: Calendar 2025-1
Created Using: MindManager 2020 & 24
Information Sources: Wikipedia, Time and Date, Ma ain heid!





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