{"id":15119,"date":"2025-11-28T10:23:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T10:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oreateai.com\/blog\/google-sheets-calendar-template\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T10:23:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T10:23:19","slug":"google-sheets-calendar-template","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oreateai.com\/blog\/google-sheets-calendar-template\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Sheets Calendar Template"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let me tell you about the summer I tried to &quot;Marie Kondo&quot; my life with seven different planners from Target \u2013 neon sticky notes included \u2013 only to end up missing my niece\u2019s birthday party because I\u2019d scribbled the date on a napkin during a Starbucks run. That\u2019s when my brother-in-law (bless his patience) sat me down and said, &quot;<em>Girl<\/em>, you need a system that doesn\u2019t require carrying a Trapper Keeper in your diaper bag.&quot; Enter: Google Sheets calendar templates.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the thing \u2013 I resisted at first. Spreadsheets felt like something for tax people or my Aunt Carol who tracks her bridge club scores. But after wasting $14 on a fancy app that synced to <em>nothing<\/em> but my frustration? I caved. Started with a basic weekly template I found through a Reddit thread (shoutout to r\/Productivity!). Took me three tries to realize why dates kept glitching (protip: NEVER type &quot;9\/5&quot; without formatting the cell as a date first \u2013 unless you enjoy seeing &quot;September 5th&quot; turn into &quot;42176&quot;).<\/p>\n<p><strong>What actually works after 2 years of trial\/error:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The &quot;Year at a Glance&quot; hack<\/strong>: Found a minimalist template, then added conditional formatting so deadlines turn red 3 days out (like that time I nearly forgot my daycare payment). Now my husband gets a Slack alert too \u2013 marriage saver.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Birthday Tracker with GIFs<\/strong>: Sounds silly, but adding a column for gift ideas AND embedding Dollar Store shopping links? Game-changer. My mother-in-law still thinks I\u2019m suddenly &quot;so thoughtful!&quot;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gardening Calendar Surprise<\/strong>: Modified a project timeline template to track seedling rotations. Who knew zucchini needed exactly 47 days? (My overwatered basil from 2022 certainly didn\u2019t tell me.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh! The magic moment? Discovering you can create dropdowns for recurring tasks. Saturday soccer practice? Now a one-click addition instead of retyping &quot;<em>7:30am, bring orange slices, pray coach doesn\u2019t discuss crypto again<\/em>&quot; every week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you\u2019re starting:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Search &quot;[Your Need] + template site:docs.google.com&quot; (e.g., &quot;meal prep calendar template site:docs.google.com&quot;) \u2013 way better than sifting through SEO bait blogs.<\/li>\n<li>Duplicate BEFORE tweaking (learned this after accidentally deleting someone\u2019s vacation tracker during a 2AM &quot;productivity spree&quot;).<\/li>\n<li>Use the &quot;Version History&quot; like a time machine. That one Tuesday when I color-coded everything in PMS 2023 Violet? Yeah\u2026we don\u2019t talk about Bruno.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Still use paper sometimes? Same. But now it\u2019s for doodling weekend plans while my Sheets calendar hums quietly in the background \u2013 like a Netflix subscription you actually use. Try the &quot;Simple Weekly&quot; template from Google\u2019s gallery first. If my chaos can become semi-functional, yours can too. And hey, if you invent a template that auto-orders pizza on busy nights? Slide into my DMs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me tell you about the summer I tried to &quot;Marie Kondo&quot; my life with seven different planners from Target \u2013 neon sticky notes included \u2013 only to end up missing my niece\u2019s birthday party because I\u2019d scribbled the date on a napkin during a Starbucks run. That\u2019s when my brother-in-law (bless his patience) sat&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oreateai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oreateai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oreateai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oreateai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oreateai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oreateai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oreateai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oreateai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oreateai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oreateai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}