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Gift and Birthday Tracker
One sheet holding every birthday, every gift idea you have had during the year, and what you have already given — plus a monthly prompt that tells you who to think about next.
The problem is not choosing gifts, it is that good ideas arrive in March and are gone by April. Build somewhere to put them and a rhythm for reading them back.
Before you start
What it takes
- Time
- 45 minutes to 1 hour 15 min
- Level
- Beginner
- Tools
- Google Sheets · ChatGPT
- Cost to run
- Free. A Google account and a free ChatGPT account.
Last checked and updated 1 August 2026.
The plan
What you will do
All 4 steps, in the order you do them. There is a short setup before the first one, listing what to have open.
- Design the sheetAbout 12 minutes
- Get the ideas out of your headAbout 15 minutes
- Make it suggest things worth buyingAbout 12 minutes
- Set the monthly rhythmAbout 10 minutes
Free
Gift and Birthday Tracker can be your free Build.
Not a preview and not a sample. One Build of your choosing, all the way to a thing that works — and you only get one, so it may as well be the one you actually want.
- Every step in order, with the exact prompt to paste and where to paste it
- A checkpoint after each step, so you know it worked before moving on
- The walkthrough, the templates and any files that go with it
- Your place kept, so you can put it down and come back to the same step