One medicine to a line
The columns run name | times a day | parts of the day | days | instruction, split on a vertical bar or a tab. A name alone will produce a grid; every column you fill makes it more exact. Leaving the parts of the day blank fills them in from the number of times a day — one goes to morning, two to morning and evening, three to morning, midday and evening, four adds bedtime — and naming the slots yourself always wins over that. Leaving the number of days blank matches the length of the grid. The last column is for copying across whatever is written on the box: 30 minutes before food, with breakfast. Whatever you put there is reproduced next to the medicine in the slot table and on the printed sheet, word for word, because it is the prescriber's instruction and not ours to reword.
The grid on screen and the chart on paper
The on-screen grid runs slots down the side and days across the top, which is the layout for answering "what is due at midday on Thursday". The printed chart flips it: days down the side, a box for each slot across, because a sheet on the fridge gets read top to bottom as the week goes and ticked as you go. A course that runs out mid-grid leaves its cells empty from that day on, so a week-long antibiotic sitting alongside something ongoing shows visibly where the load drops away. Days-left comes from adding each course length to the start date and comparing with the date in the "today" box, which is also how you find out roughly when a repeat needs ordering.
What this deliberately does not do
When two medicines land in the same slot, the page says so and stops there. It does not know whether they can be swallowed together, whether one blocks the other, whether an hour's gap solves it, or what happens when a before-food tablet and an after-food tablet collide at the same time. It does not suggest a dose, does not propose a different interval, and does not offer alternatives. Those answers depend on the actual products, strengths, the rest of what someone is taking and their kidney and liver function, and they belong to the prescriber and the pharmacist. Where prescriptions have come from different clinics, carrying all the boxes into one pharmacy at once is the way to get the whole list looked at together. Treat a doubled-up slot on this page as a note to ask, not as a problem to solve yourself.
Keeping it honest over time
A schedule printed once and left up for two months quietly goes wrong: doses change, courses end, something new gets added. Reprint it whenever anything changes and put the old one in the recycling, so there is only ever one current sheet in the house. It is also worth writing on the paper when a dose gets missed rather than trying to remember it — a missed box with the date next to it is a useful thing to show at the next appointment, and what to do about the miss itself is a question for the pharmacy, not for the chart. If a medicine seems to be causing something — a rash, dizziness, anything that started when it did — that is a phone call, and it should not wait for the next scheduled visit.
Questions people ask
Will this tell me if two of my medicines should not be taken together?
No. It shows you that they ended up in the same time slot and nothing more; no interaction checking happens anywhere on this page. Whether they can go together, and whether they need spacing, has to come from the prescriber or the pharmacist, who can see the actual products and strengths. If several clinics are involved, take every box to one pharmacy and have the whole list reviewed at once.
I missed a dose. Should I take two next time?
That is not a question this page can answer, and it does not try. What to do after a missed dose depends entirely on the medicine and on how long the gap has been, and the answer ranges from skip it to take it now. Check the leaflet in the box or ring the pharmacy. On the chart, leave the box unticked with the date beside it and mention it at your next appointment.
Are the medicine names stored anywhere?
No. The grid and the printable sheet are both assembled in your browser, nothing is transmitted, and a refresh clears the form. Print the chart or keep the copied text if you want the schedule to survive closing the tab.