The chain productivity method uses a wall calendar to record your progress towards a goal. Each day that you make progress to the goal, you mark the day with a cross. The crosses create a chain from one day to the next, giving a visual representation of your progress. The idea is to ‘never break the chain’ by never skipping a day which creates a gap. This method of recording progress visually reinforces your commitment to achieving your goal.

The Calendar Arc merges the chain productivity method with a multi-use calendar to give you a highly functional map of your year. It replaces the one-month-per-page wall calendar with a single poster sized print of the year, with the calendar wrapped onto an arc. This representation doesn’t break weeks or months to separate pages, giving visual feedback of progress when using the chain method.

Traditional calendar functions remain, with day of week, date, week, month, quarter and year rings identifying separate parts of the year. Ample space is provided for daily notes, as well as empty arcs that can be used to note events occurring over multiple days or weeks.

The Calendar Arc is not just for individual use. Teams can use the calendar as a collaborative tool, giving a visual feedback on productivity and allowing easy retrospectives and future planning. Samples uses include:

• Business: Use the empty arcs to record team member leave or staff movements, and see where there are overlaps to ensure sufficient resources are allocated in the business.
• Health: Use a chain to represent going to the gym or exercising. Cross each day you do exercise on the chain and try not to break it! Write your weight in the outer arc to track it.
• Sales milestones: Use the outer arc to write sales targets and record daily sales.
• Software development: Enhance your agile wall by making the Calendar Arc as the centrepiece for all your other Things On Walls. Use it to tie the entire project together.
• Family: Mark your families’ birthdays in the outer arc. It’s now easy to see how far away birthdays are and prepare for them in advance. Never miss a birthday again!
• Eating habits: Use a chain to represent days you don’t eat junk food. Don’t break the chain by giving into temptation!

The Calendar Arc is available as a .pdf and a physical print and is funding now on Kickstarter.