Spreadsheet Trackers
Five trackers for your money, a year's budget, habits, reading and goals. Each is one .xlsx file you type into, and each comes with an Example copy already filled in, so you see every chart before you start.
- Format
- .xlsx, no macros, no add-ons
- Tested in
- Microsoft 365 Excel and LibreOffice Calc
- Two copies
- A blank one to use, and an Example to learn from
- Currency
- Any: you set the symbol once
- Checked
- Every formula recalculated with no errors in both
Preview of the trackers
| Category | Budget | Spent | Left | Progress |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rent | 1,450.00 | 1,450.00 | - | |
| Groceries | 520.00 | 396.12 | 123.88 | |
| Eating out | 220.00 | 294.86 | -74.86 | |
| Transport | 180.00 | 132.54 | 47.46 | |
| Utilities | 160.00 | 192.88 | -32.88 | |
| Phone & internet | 75.00 | 74.99 | 0.01 | |
| Subscriptions | 70.00 | 66.48 | 3.52 | |
| Insurance | 130.00 | 128.40 | 1.60 | |
| Health | 80.00 | - | 80.00 | |
| Shopping | 200.00 | 346.69 | -146.69 |
| Plan vs actual | Planned | Actual | Difference | Progress |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Income | 66,000 | 64,800 | -1,200 | |
| Bills | 22,080 | 22,424 | -344 | |
| Expenses | 16,600 | 14,031 | 2,569 | |
| Savings | 10,200 | 10,200 | - | |
| Debt payments | 7,560 | 7,760 | -200 |
| Debt snowball | Balance | APR | Minimum | Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Store card | 640 | 26.9% | 30 | 1 |
| Personal loan | 2,100 | 11.5% | 85 | 2 |
| Credit card | 3,200 | 22.9% | 95 | 3 |
| Car loan | 9,800 | 6.4% | 280 | 4 |
| Student loan | 14,500 | 4.5% | 150 | 5 |
| Debt-free in 42 months (June 2028), paying 200 extra a month | ||||
| Habit | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Done | Goal | Streak | Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drink 2 litres of water | x | x | x | x | ✓ | ✓ | x | x | X | ✓ | x | x | 1 | x | 29 | 31 | 15 | 55 |
| Read 20 minutes | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ✓ | x | x | 22 | 22 | 5 | 22 | ||
| Workout | ✓ | X | x | x | x | x | x | x | ✔ | x | 15 | 18 | 2 | 7 | ||||
| Meditate 10 minutes | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | X | x | 20 | 22 | 4 | 10 | ||||
| No phone after 10pm | x | x | x | x | ✓ | x | X | x | x | 1 | x | 20 | 27 | 0 | 12 | |||
| Walk 8,000 steps | x | X | x | ✓ | x | x | x | X | x | x | ✓ | 24 | 22 | 3 | 8 | |||
| Journal | ✓ | x | x | x | x | x | x | X | 17 | 13 | 2 | 5 | ||||||
| Practice Spanish | 1 | x | x | x | x | x | ✓ | x | x | x | 20 | 22 | 1 | 8 |
| Title | Author | Genre | Status | Progress | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Hollow Bell | Céline Arnaud | Fantasy | Finished | ★★★★☆ | |
| Focus in a Loud World | Jon Achterberg | Self-help | Finished | ★★☆☆☆ | |
| The Orchard at Night | Mara Ellison | Literary fiction | Finished | ★★★★☆ | |
| The Map of Lost Rivers | Tomas Reyes | Mystery & thriller | Reading | ||
| Children of the Long Dark | Owen Marsh | Science fiction | Reading | ||
| A Year of Slow Bread | Hanna Weiss | Biography & memoir | Reading | ||
| The Endless Corridor | Victor Hale | Horror | Did Not Finish | ★★☆☆☆ |
| Goal | Area | Target | Progress | Status | Next milestone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Run a half marathon | Health | 12 Oct 2025 | Behind | Race day: 21.1 km | |
| Save a 6-month emergency fund | Money | 31 Dec 2025 | On track | Reach 6 months of expenses | |
| Read 30 books | Learning | 31 Dec 2025 | On track | Finish 30 books | |
| Learn conversational Spanish | Learning | 15 Dec 2025 | Behind | First 15-minute conversation class | |
| Get promoted to senior designer | Career | 31 Dec 2025 | Behind | Portfolio of 3 case studies | |
| Pay off the credit card | Money | 31 Aug 2025 | Done | - | |
| Weekly date night | Relationships | 31 Dec 2025 | On track | 45 date nights | |
| Declutter the whole house | Home | 30 Jun 2025 | Overdue | Garage |
What it does
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Type a transaction, see the month
Add a row in Transactions. The dashboard, the monthly summary and every category's budget bar update for the month you pick.
Money Tracker
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A year of budgets in one file
Twelve monthly sheets, planned against actual: income, bills, expenses, savings and debt payments, rolled up into one annual dashboard.
Annual Budget Planner
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A debt snowball that does the sums
List up to 15 debts with balance, rate and minimum. It puts the smallest balance first and shows the month you are debt-free: June 2028 in the Example.
Annual Budget Planner
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Streaks that count themselves
Mark a day with x, 1 or ✓. Done, goal, current streak and best streak fill in, and a streak carries on across months.
Habit Tracker
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A reading goal, pages and stars
Set a goal for the year and log your current page. Each book gets a progress bar, ratings show as stars, and the dashboard counts books per month.
Reading Tracker
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Goals broken into milestones
Up to 12 goals with 5 milestones each. Type the date you finish a milestone and the goal's progress, status and next step update, with quarterly check-ins.
Goals Tracker
The trackers
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Money Tracker
6 sheets
- Transactions: 1,500 rows of date, category, amount and account
- Dashboard with a month picker: income, expenses, saved, savings rate
- Budget against actual for every category, with progress bars
- Monthly summary and savings goals
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Annual Budget Planner
20 sheets
- Twelve monthly budgets and an annual dashboard
- Bills and subscriptions, with a payment calendar
- Debt snowball for up to 15 debts
- 10 sinking funds and a net-worth tracker
Coming soon -
Habit Tracker
15 sheets
- Up to 20 habits, each with a weekly target
- A grid for every month, with your weekend shaded: Sat-Sun, Fri-Sat or Thu-Fri
- Done, completion, current and best streak
- Dashboard: completion by month and your best habits
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Reading Tracker
5 sheets
- A library of up to 500 books: status, dates, current page and a progress bar
- Ratings shown as stars, and a wish list of up to 200 books
- Dashboard: books against your goal, pages, books per month
- Your own genre and format lists
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Goals Tracker
5 sheets
- Up to 12 goals, each with its area and why
- 5 milestones per goal, each with a due date
- Quarterly check-ins
- A dashboard of progress across your goals
Coming soon -
Life OS bundle
All five
- Money, Annual Budget, Habit, Reading and Goals
- Each with its blank and Example copies
- One How to use guide for each tracker
Coming soon
Before you buy
- Tested in
- Microsoft 365 Excel for Windows and LibreOffice Calc. No macros, add-ons or internet needed. Excel for Mac, Excel on the web and Google Sheets are not tested.
- Two copies
- Every tracker comes blank, ready to use, and as an Example filled with made-up data so every chart has something to show.
- Typing
- You type only in the cream cells; everything else is worked out by formulas.
- Currency
- Type your currency symbol once in Settings.
- Support
- 30 days from purchase if a file will not open. Customisation is not included.
- Licence
- Personal use by the buyer. No resale, sharing, or republishing as a template.