Period tracker booklet: a full year of cycles in a purse size fold

This period tracker booklet is printed at home and folded into a small, undated booklet for your bag, 24 pages long and enough for a full year. Six landscape sheets are already arranged for saddle stitching: print on both sides, fold the pile in half and staple. The 15 page PDF comes in US Letter, which gives Half Letter pages, and in A4, which gives A5 pages. It downloads instantly, and nothing is shipped.

Simple to make, easy to carry and ready whenever someone asks about your last period.

How the period tracker booklet shows your year

One two page spread shows the entire year, every month laid out day by day. Shade the days you bleed using the flow key, dot the days with symptoms or a low mood, and jot down the start date, how many days you bled and how long the cycle ran. A separate table follows a dozen cycles with your typical, shortest and longest, and a summary page helps you put into words how your body, mood and energy shift through each phase.

For each month there is a facing pair of pages with a column per day, covering flow, ten physical symptoms and a spare line, six moods and an energy score, so returning cramps, headaches or flat days are easy to spot. List symptoms and questions before you see a doctor, then capture what was said and what happens next on the two visit pages.

Who this menstrual cycle booklet is for

• Anyone who would like a full year of periods, symptoms and moods on paper rather than in an app
• Women who like a slim booklet in their handbag that can go with them to see a doctor or nurse
• Anyone following cramps, headaches, low mood or sleep around their cycle to spot patterns over the months
• Crafty people happy to put a booklet together at home using only their printer and a stapler

Design and printing

• A calm, minimal look: white paper and blush pink accents that are easy on ink
• Generous margins, so home printers do not clip anything
• From the US Letter file, the booklet pages are Half Letter (5.5 x 8.5 in), printed two per side on landscape sheets. From the A4 file, they are A5 (148 x 210 mm), also two per side. The order is set for saddle stitching, so there is no cutting
• Undated, so you can begin in whatever month suits you
• Every sheet has pink fold marks, every booklet page is numbered and the middle spread shows where to staple

Inside the period tracker booklet: 15 PDF pages

1. 1Cover with contents, what you get and the key facts at a glance: the page and sheet count, the finished size and how it is bound
2. 2Printing help: a table of which PDF pages to print, how the layout works, settings for two-sided printing, a test sheet tip, steps for manual duplex and a box for your own printer settings
3. 3Duplex and page order guide: a diagram of the front and reverse of all 6 sheets, a five step routine (print, stack, fold, staple, check), and advice on stapling with a regular stapler, paper weight and checking the page order
4. 4 to 15The booklet itself, 24 pages printed on 6 sheets. Up front: a cover with space for the year and your name, and a getting started page with 6 numbered steps that point to the right pages, symbols for spotting and for light, medium or heavy flow, symbols for body and mood, 5 tips and a note to read first. A basics page holds your typical cycle and period length, when your last period began, the products you like, four lines for medicines or supplements with dose and timing, health notes, allergies and contact details for your doctor or clinic, pharmacy and next checkup. The year view spreads across two facing pages, January to June on one side and July to December on the other, each month with a square for every day to shade, a line to dot symptoms, a line to dot low mood, start date, bleeding days and cycle length, plus the flow symbols and notes for the year. Next, a twelve cycle table records start, end, number of days, cycle length and a note, with your typical cycle, typical period and the shortest and longest cycle. A phase summary asks how your body, mood and energy feel while bleeding, just after, around mid-cycle and in the days before, plus your top four symptoms, what eases them, how things change over time and points for your next appointment. The main section is twelve months of facing pages: when the period began and ended, which date is cycle day 1, and a day by day grid with flow, ten body lines (cramps, headache, bloating, tender breasts, breakouts, back pain, tiredness, cravings, poor sleep and one to name yourself), six mood lines (happy, calm, anxious, irritable, low, teary), a 1 to 3 energy line and a box for what stood out. To finish: a pre-appointment page (why you are going, five symptoms with when they began, how often and how severe, seven numbered questions, what to take and a short cycle summary), two pages of visit notes (doctor or clinic, reason, discussion, tests and results, the plan, the follow-up date and time and questions for next time), a notes page and a back page with more notes, a checklist for starting your next booklet and the please note text

What you will download

• The folded period booklet as a US Letter PDF of 15 pages
• The same booklet as an A4 PDF of 15 pages
• Read Me First, a brief PDF printing guide

How to download and print

• Check out with PayPal, a debit or credit card, Apple Pay or Google Pay. Your download page opens as soon as the payment goes through.
• We email the same private download links to you, so you can download your files again later.
• Open the PDF in a free reader such as Adobe Acrobat Reader and print at 100% or Actual size.
• Print only the pages you need, as often as you like, for your own personal use.

Good to know

• The PDF is designed to be printed on both sides and folded, so it is not a hyperlinked digital planner. Paper, a cover and a stapler are not included.
• This is a digital download, and nothing physical is shipped.
• Printed colors can differ slightly from your screen.
• The files are meant for your own use, so please keep them to yourself rather than sharing, reselling or redistributing them.
• Digital files can't be sent back, but if one won't open or prints wrongly, email us and we will help right away.
• This booklet is for keeping your own records and staying organized. It is no substitute for medical advice, it cannot diagnose or treat anything and it does not replace a doctor or nurse.
• Please do not rely on it as birth control or contraception, and it has no way to forecast fertile days.
• Each printer aligns the reverse side a little differently, so try one plain test sheet before you print the whole booklet.

How this was made

Designed and written by PetiteDiary. AI tools helped draft parts of the text, and some background scenes in the preview images were created with AI. Every page was designed, reviewed and checked before release.

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