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The only planner built from your answers, before you pay

For the adult who has already bought a planner too many

Shiny Helm is for adults with ADHD, diagnosed or self-identified, who have picked up a planner or a planning app, kept it going for a while, and let it go. You have a phone or an iPad, and often a printer.

Shiny Helm is the only planner shop that builds your planner from your own answers before you pay, then rebuilds it without judgment when it stops working.

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Sample page, printed
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Sample page, on an iPad

Three steps, and the first one is yours

You will not choose from a shelf of layouts. You will answer, and what comes back will be shaped by what you said.

  1. Step 1

    You answer

    A few short questions about how you actually plan, and what you have dropped before.

  2. Step 2

    It gets built

    Shiny Helm builds your planner from those answers, before you pay.

  3. Step 3

    You take the PDF

    One file. Print it, or open it in GoodNotes or Notability.

The questions you answer

  • When your week starts
  • Dated or undated
  • What you keep track of
  • How much you will write
  • What you have dropped before
A hand writing a short entry on an undated planner page beside an orange tab
Sample page

Only the pages you asked for

Tell Shiny Helm what you are trying to keep track of, and which sections you have abandoned before. Your planner contains those pages and nothing else.

Every page is named in your words. If a section has never worked for you, it is not in there.

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Sample pages, print and iPad

Opens where you write

Your planner arrives as one PDF. It prints on the printer you already have, and it opens in GoodNotes and Notability, with tappable tabs.

One file, not a folder of them, and nothing to install first.

A smiling person holding a card that reads: Tell us what stopped working.

Rebuilt without judgment

A planner that stops working is a planner that needs rebuilding, not a person who needs changing.

When it happens, you tell us what stopped working and Shiny Helm rebuilds it, without judgment. It is called Fresh Start, and it is for people who already own a Shiny Helm planner.

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Sample week spread

A week that starts when yours does

You choose the day your week begins, and whether the pages carry dates or stay undated.

You also say how much you will realistically write, so a page asks for a line or two instead of a paragraph.

A sample, from invented answers

This is the kind of planner your answers become. The answers below are made up for this page, and so is every entry on the planner.

Week starts
Monday
Pages
Undated
Keeping track of
Rent and bills, school pickups, one big thing a day
Will write
A line or two
Dropped before
Habit trackers, monthly spreads
  • This week
  • Rent and bills
  • School pickups
  • The one big thing

This week

Monday start, undated

  • Mon

    The one big thing: send the form

  • Tue

    School pickup 3:15

  • Wed

    Pay the electricity bill

  • Thu

    School pickup 3:15

    Call the dentist

  • Fri

    Rent due

  • Sat

    Open

  • Sun

    Open

Sample planner page with invented entries, shown on an iPad

Five answers, one PDF, no subscription

Your planner is built from what you tell us, and it is built before you pay. Here is what that looks like on the page.

See a sample

Price

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Made-to-order Planner

$12, one time

Built from your answers

One PDF, with the printable and iPad-hyperlinked versions in one download.

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Fresh Start

$5, one time

For an existing buyer

A rebuilt planner, after you say what stopped working.

One-time purchases through NanoCorp's hosted Stripe checkout. No subscription at launch.