The Planned Life

Independent tools and templates

Simple systems for planning, money and focused work.

Calculators that show their working, printables you can use this week, and guides built for real schedules and real budgets.

Free, no account, works offline once the page has loaded.

Week of Mar 3 TOP 3 THIS WEEK TIME BLOCKS Handmade pricing $10 materials · 2 h @ $15 · 6.5% fees Materials $10.00Labor (2 h) $30.00Packaging $1.50Marketplace fees $7.59 LIST PRICE FOR 40% MARGIN $76.76 Debt payoff calculator $2,000 AT 19.99% · $100/MONTH 25 months $452.92 paid in interest ADD $50 A MONTH 16 months saves $172.26 and 9 months Runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.

Most useful

Six things worth reading first

01
Planning

The 15-minute Sunday planning routine

The core system: four passes, fifteen minutes, a week you don't have to re-decide every morning.

02
Money

Zero-based budgeting for beginners

Every dollar gets a job before the month starts. With a diagram of where $2,400 actually goes.

03
Money

Sinking funds: how to stop big bills surprising you

The annual bills, divided by twelve. The single highest-leverage change for most budgets.

04
Focus

How to time-block when your schedule keeps changing

Anchor blocks stay; everything else moves. Written for irregular weeks.

05
Money

How to build a student budget that sticks

Budget by term, not by month, because student money arrives in lumps.

06
Guide

Minimalist desk setup: the buying order

Surface, body, space, details. What to buy first and what to skip.

Templates

When the free version stops being enough

Spreadsheets and printables I designed and sell myself. The free tools solve the same problems — these save the setup.

Free templates first

Free · Excel & Sheets

Monthly Review Workbook

Five sheets, 49 live formulas and a dashboard that names the product quietly carrying your shop. Free, no email.

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Excel

Handmade Pricing Calculator (Excel)

The web calculator's maths, saved per product. Change your hourly rate once and every item reprices.

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Excel

Small Business Bookkeeping Sheet

Log income and expenses; profit, margin and category totals update as you type. Built for one person, not an accounting department.

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