2023 calendar template

Use this full-year calendar template to lay out milestones, track progress, and align with your team for the year in a single, shared space.

Mural’s infinite canvas means you can get as granular as you want, adding details with sticky notes, icons, comments, and more so you can get a bird’s-eye view of your entire year. Invite team members and quickly communicate important steps and stages in any process with this holistic approach.

The annual calendar template helps you:

• Sketch out milestones and key dates across the entire year
• Get aligned with your team on timing and projects
• Communicate cross-functionally by providing a 30,000-foot view of your initiatives

How to use the annual calendar template

To get started using the Mural annual calendar template, follow the steps outlined below.

1. Set legends and select icons

To help give you an at-a-glance understanding of your year, a good first step is to determine a color code for sticky notes by theme, and establish a set of icons meant to show things like milestones, deadlines, or projects.

2. Add sticky notes and icons to your calendar

Once you have a system in place, add sticky notes based on projects or items across your calendar to give you a sense for the flow of work over the course of the year.

3. Build timelines and identify potential bottlenecks

As you build out the content in your calendar, you may notice areas of overlap or timing challenges across your projects. The earlier you identify these issues, the better the flow of work for your team, as you’ll be better equipped to adjust and reallocate resources.

4. Keep your calendar up to date

The best way to get the most use from your calendar is to make sure you’re keeping it up to date. Naturally, things change over the course of the year — the more you can track those changes accurately and in one place, the better you’ll be able to handle updates and challenges with your team.

Tips for using the annual calendar template

To make the most of your calendar mural, you should:

• Gather your team and important stakeholders to contribute while building out the content — that way, you’ll avoid any blind spots
• Use color-coding and differently shaped sticky notes to help make your calendar easy to read and understand, and leverage the Mural icon library in the toolbar to build out your legend
• Identify timelines and use features like comments and tags for sticky notes to help assign tasks and track progress