Free Tools & Templates
Companions to our guides. Every file here is free, needs no signup, and does one specific job — download it, tweak it to fit your setup, and get back to work.
Time-Blocking Starter Template
Six recurring blocks — deep work, buffer, lunch, email batch, and a Friday review — ready to import so your week starts from a working structure instead of a blank grid.
View & download →Monthly Budget Tracker
Twelve monthly tabs with Planned, Actual, and Difference columns, plus a year summary that totals itself. Categories and formulas included — you just fill in numbers.
View & download →How These Pair With the Guides
Each tool is the working file behind one of our articles: the guide explains the method and the edge cases, and the file gives you the starting point so you skip the blank-page step. Import it, adjust the details to your own week or data, and keep the guide open the first time you run it.
More tools are on the way — spreadsheet templates and starter kits for the software we write about. If there's a file you keep rebuilding from scratch, tell us; the next template might be yours.