Which layout
The hourly grid puts the seven days across the top and the hours down the side, printed landscape. It is the right shape when your commitments have times attached and you need to see a collision — two things at 2 PM show up as two things in one box. It is the wrong shape when most of your week is untimed, because you print a page that is 80 percent empty cells.
The day lists print portrait, one box per day, each with checkboxes and ruled lines. Anything with a time still shows the time in front of the text, but the layout does not reserve space by hour. This is the version that survives being folded into a pocket, and it is the one to pick if you are writing tasks rather than appointments.
The hour band changes the row height
The grid divides the sheet by the number of hours you asked for, so a narrow band gives fat rows you can actually write in. Seven in the morning to ten at night is fifteen rows on one landscape sheet, which is around 9 mm each — enough for a few words, not a sentence. Nine to six is nine rows and close to double the height. Set the band to the hours you actually schedule things in rather than the hours you are awake.
Anything that falls outside the band is not thrown away. It goes into the All day row at the top with its time printed in front of it, and the result panel tells you how many landed there. The original version of this idea silently dropped those entries, which is a bad way to find out your 6 AM run is missing.
Writing the recurring lines
One item per line, in the order: days, then an optional time, then the text. Days can be abbreviated or spelled out and joined with commas, slashes or plus signs — Mon,Wed,Fri, tue/thu and Monday+Friday all work. Three group words are understood: daily, weekdays and weekends. A single T is read as Tuesday and W as Wednesday; if you mean Thursday write Th.
A time has to have a colon or an am/pm marker, so 7:00, 7am, 7:30 pm and 19:30 are times and a bare 10 is not. That rule exists so a line reading "Mon 10 pushups" puts ten pushups on Monday instead of scheduling "pushups" at ten in the morning. Untimed items go in the All day row on the grid and at the top of the box in the list layout.
Weeks that do not start on the first day
By default the tool snaps to the start of whichever week contains your date, so any Wednesday gives you that Sunday through Saturday. Turn the snap off and you get seven days beginning on the exact date you picked, which is what you want for a trip, a course that runs Thursday to Wednesday, or a shift rotation that does not respect calendar weeks. The day headings show the real dates either way, so a printed sheet is never ambiguous about which week it is.
Questions people ask
Can I get two weeks on a sheet?
No, and shrinking a week to half a page leaves rows too shallow to write in. Print the same settings twice with the start date a week apart. If what you actually want is a long run of check-off columns, the habit tracker does a month across one sheet.
Recurring lines are being ignored.
Check the day names are separated from the rest by a space, not a colon or a dash. The result panel lists every line it could not read along with the expected shape, so compare yours against that. A common miss is writing a time without a colon or am/pm.
Half-hour entries land in the wrong row.
They do not — an item at 7:30 sits in the 7 AM row with its time printed in front of it. The grid is one row per hour on purpose, since half-hour rows halve the writing space and most people already write the time in when it matters.
Can I change the fill colour of the header?
There is no colour control, and it is mostly moot: browsers do not print background colours unless you switch that option on in the print dialog. What you get on paper is a clean line-ruled grid, which photocopies better anyway.