By Previous Projects Post One
Over the previous 30 or so years, I’ve been involved in quite a number of projects. So many, in fact, that I’ve long lost count. From magazine subscription services to video tape network exchanges to fan club newsletters and a lot more. Some of these have made money, most of these have lost money. But money was never the true intention behind any of them. Usually it was to help someone or fulfill an unspoken need, or simply to fulfill one for myself which I then shared with everyone.
One of those was Plan Forever
Ten years ago I could not find a simple online calendar that could help me find the correct days of the week for dates in the future.
The far future.
So, I got onto a website called Odesk (now Upwork) and hired a gentleman in Indonesia who worked with me to create a php platform that would enable me to check the day of the week for dates up to the year 9999. It took a lot of planning but I wanted an easy way to jump to a hundred years and a thousand years into the future, with drop down menus and more. To make it more accessible, I also wanted a century planner, so you could plan out the next hundred years.
Perfect for time travel stories!
PlanForever.com
After several months and hundreds of dollars, the program finally came to fruition, and I could launch PlanForever.com for planners and time travel writers.
I was so excited by this site, and promoted it everywhere. Spent some money on Adwords, added it to lots of publications, and included it in some emails.
Sadly, there wasn’t much interest. Within about a year or two, Google had made their calendar service a lot more user friendly. And, even though you can’t jump to the year 9999 on Google’s Calendar without clicking on the forward button for hours, it was a lot more popular than my Plan Forever site.
Still, I have kept the site running. I like the idea of knowing the exact day of the week that a character might land in the future (the site can also take you back to the year 0, though it doesn’t have an adjustment for the missing 11 days in 1752) and it gives me the incentive to work on some other time travel stories. I hope there are many science fiction book and script writers visiting the site to double-check their days and dates.
So, if you plan to write a time travel story, and you really need to mention the day, check out the calendar at Plan Forever , and get a more accurate fix on the day of the week.
Enjoy!
If you prefer the printed version, I also released a blank diary in 2014 with a century planner in the back here: Weekly Planner Diary. 52 Blank Undated Weeks. Lined Note Pages & Century Planner.