Our story
Most free templates are either generic to the point of uselessness, or so complicated they take longer to set up than the problem they were supposed to solve. We built the ones we actually wanted.
It started with a Sunday afternoon and a Google Sheets template that was supposed to help plan the week. It had seventeen tabs, colour-coded formulas that broke when you looked at them sideways, and instructions that assumed you had an IT background. It was technically free. It was practically useless.
So we built our own. A simple weekly planner. Then a bill tracker. Then a meal planner linked to a grocery list. Then a Notion workspace that put the whole household in one place. Each template was built to solve a specific, real problem — not to demonstrate how many features could fit in a spreadsheet.
At some point it became obvious that other people had the same problem: the free templates were underwhelming, the paid ones were overpriced for what they did, and the "just use this app" alternative meant learning a new tool every six months when the app pivoted or got acquired.
Premium Templates exists because there is a better middle ground: well-designed, immediately useful templates in tools people already use — Google Sheets and Notion — at a price that does not require a subscription.
Templates for four areas of life that most people manage poorly not because they lack capability, but because they have never had the right structure:
Weekly schedules, chore systems, family command centres. The infrastructure for running a household without it running you.
Bill trackers, household budgets, accounts receivable. Clear visibility of what is coming in, what is going out, and what is owed.
Daily planners, time-blocking systems, Sunday planning routines. Structure that accounts for how real days actually unfold.
A template should be opinionated. Blank grids are not helpful — they just move the design problem onto the person who downloaded it. Every template we build makes decisions: what columns matter, how to handle edge cases, what a completed week or a paid-up bill tracker actually looks like in use. You can adjust, but the defaults are good enough to use on day one.
A template should be simple enough to maintain. A system you abandon after two weeks solved nothing. Every template is designed with the question: what is the minimum structure that makes this significantly better than no structure at all? Not: what is every possible feature we could add?
A template should work in tools you already have open. We do not build for niche apps. Google Sheets is on every laptop and phone on earth. Notion has a free plan that covers everything most households need. Those are the tools we build for.
Alex
Premium Templates
I have spent more time than I would like to admit building spreadsheets for my own life — tracking bills, planning weeks, managing freelance invoicing, trying to keep a household running without dropping things.
At some point I realised the templates I had built for myself were genuinely better than most of what was available online. Not because I am especially clever, but because I had actually used them for long enough to know what worked and what was just overhead.
Premium Templates is the cleaned-up, well-designed version of those personal systems — built for people who want to spend less time organising and more time doing whatever the organisation was supposed to make possible.
If something is not working or you want a template we do not have yet, send me a message. I read every one.
Every template comes with a guide — not just instructions for using the template, but a thorough explanation of how the underlying system works. The goal is that even if you never buy a template, the guide gives you enough to build something that works for your situation.
The blog is where those guides live. They cover everything from how to structure a weekly schedule to how to track accounts receivable without accounting software. Search traffic aside, they exist because the explanation is often as useful as the tool.
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