I'm a (slowly recovering) procrastinator, a blogger, and a full-blown Notion obsessive. I make calm templates for organising your life, your money and your head, the same ones I built to keep my own life from quietly falling apart.
This is the long version of how I got here.
In 2019 I started architecture school, and I was so excited. I had the notebooks, the big plans, the whole vision. What nobody warned me about was the sheer volume of it: the studio hours, the deadlines, the way one project bleeds straight into the next. If I lost an hour or two, I didn't just lose an hour or two. I fell behind for days.
So I did what most of us do. I started googling how to get organised. I watched the videos, tried the planners, downloaded the apps. I picked up a lot of genuinely good techniques along the way, and then I found Notion on YouTube.
I've been a Notion user since 2021, and what hooked me was simple: it was a blank page. Nobody telling me how my brain was supposed to work. It was basically my bullet journal, but online, with my weird handwriting swapped for something I could actually find again later.
I'm not exaggerating that number. I bought, borrowed and copied every system that promised to fix me. Every single one eventually sent me back to a notebook, and I didn't want a notebook. So, half out of spite, I built my own. Honestly? It wasn't even that hard. It just had to fit the way I already think, instead of the other way around.
I've been running that same system for over a year and a half now. It's the thing that survived every busy season, every burnout week, every "I'll start fresh on Monday." The templates I sell are the pieces of it that survived too.
I wasn't behind. I just needed a system. Turns out, so do a lot of us.
At some point I started sharing bits of it online, and people kept asking for it. So I cleaned it up, packaged it, and put it out into the world as jussssarah. I'm building this in real time, in public, paperwork-and-LLC-still-coming and all. I'd rather show you the honest, in-progress version than sell you a polished dream I'm not living.
Said fast, with a few extra s's because it made me smile and the normal spellings were all taken anyway. No hidden meaning, no big brand strategy. Just me, hi. And yes, before you count: it's four s's. I've made my peace with it, and I hope you will too.
The stuff I keep coming back to, and the stuff every template I make is quietly built on.
There is no universal schedule you're failing. You're holding your behind-the-scenes up against everyone else's highlight reel, and that's not a fair fight.
Most productivity advice is built for someone else's head. The fix usually isn't more discipline, it's a setup that works the way you already do.
Progress over perfection, every time. I'd rather you keep a B-minus system for a year than a flawless one for a week.
Whatever your number is, you get to look at it calmly and make a plan. No lectures, no guilt, and no pretending I have it all figured out either.
You don't have to earn the right to slow down. A system that leaves no room to breathe is one you'll quietly quit by February. Build in the breaks.
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