Zovo Countdown Chain

Make a printable countdown calendar to the day you are waiting for: a vacation, a wedding, a birthday, Christmas, the last day of school or a project deadline. Zovo Countdown Chain counts the days to go, leaving out weekends and holidays when you ask, and lays them out in one of three printable styles.

Month grid: one page per month with a big days-to-go number in each box, ready to cross off. Paper chain: one strip per day with the number, the event name and the date, ten strips to a page with cut lines and a glue tab; tear off one link each day. Tear-off cards: twelve cards to a page with crop marks; stack them with the biggest number on top.

Count all days, or only weekdays for school days left or work days to a deadline, and list holidays to skip. Add short messages, such as a daily task or a fun fact, and they print on the strips or cards in order. The event day gets its own Today! box.

You also get a calendar file (ICS) with all-day reminders at 100, 50, 30, 14, 7, 3 and 1 days to go and on the event day, for Google Calendar, Outlook or Apple Calendar. The start date is today in your time zone unless you give one, and a date without a year means the next one.

Limitations: up to 400 days from the start to the event; weekend skipping covers Saturday and Sunday, and public holidays are skipped only when you list them; it does not send notifications itself or show a live clock with hours and minutes.