Personal Almanac

Time management is sure to boost the success of every domain of activity. This can simply mean setting up the schedule for the current day, or planning ahead with the help of a calendar. In this regard, Personal Almanac comes as a customizable desktop calendar you can even carry around on a flash drive.

Requiring no installation to function, the application is good to go right after download is done. This keeps registry entries intact, so you don’t have to worry about affecting the health status of the target PC if you decide to use it on other computers as well, since it perfectly fits on a thumb drive.

Most of the space is a representation of the current month. Column headers represent day names, while other cells stand for days. Navigation controls are found in a dedicated section to help you go back and forth through months and years. You can jump directly to a specific year by writing it in a dedicated field.

Customization isn’t really abundant, but it does let you change the style of the layout. On the one hand, there’s the possibility to change background color of the calendar, but this affects only cells where days are shown. On the other hand, font options make it possible to adjust the style, size, attributes, effects, and color of all text items.

Unfortunately, the application doesn’t really come with any particular features other than a calendar view. The main window can be resized for a bigger preview area, but there’s no possibility to export as a picture, unless you go through the effort of taking a screenshot and cropping out the desired area.

In conclusion, Personal Almanac is a pretty slim calendar which can only provide a detailed view of years, months, and days. There’s no option to attach notes to days, or even print out a custom picture of the calendar you design. Even though several customization are at your disposal, these only cover the bare necessities.