Getting Organized: 10 Everyday Uses for Spreadsheets

An everyday use of spreadsheets can include events such as organizing your kid’s birthday party or your wedding, creating event planning spreadsheets to track tasks, deadlines, suppliers, and budgets. Additionally, MobiSheets can be helpful in managing guest lists, RSVPs, seating arrangements, and other practicalities.

By creating a simple spreadsheet, you can create weekly or monthly meal planners, input recipes, calculate ingredient quantities, and create corresponding grocery lists. This not only saves time and money, but also helps you gather all the necessary items for your meals, reducing waste and unnecessary trips to the store.

Planning trips is one of the most common everyday use of spreadsheets, helping to organize travel details and creating itineraries. You can track and budget flights, accommodations, transportation, and activities, keeping essential information in one place and having all the details right there at a glance.

There’s a lot that goes into running a household, and it’s easy to lost track of things in the chaos of everyday life. To stay on top of it all, you can create a spreadsheet to track belongings, including descriptions, purchase dates, and values – and with the sorting feature in MobiSheets, you can filter items to keep track of them for insurance purposes or personal reference.

For students or those pursuing further education, spreadsheets can easily organize study schedules, track assignments, and generally keep you on top of things, including important dates and deadlines. If you have a huge topic to cover, you can track the various subtopics and mark them as complete as you go along.

There’s nothing worse than missing a bill payment and being hit by late fees, or even the cancellation of a service. Create a spreadsheet with columns for bill details, due dates, amounts, and payment status to keep it from happening. You can also use conditional formatting to highlight overdue payments or approaching due dates, providing visual reminders. To help you get started, MobiSheets has a budgeting template to make it even easier.

If you have a construction project coming up at home, a spreadsheet can be used to list project tasks, estimated costs, actual expenses, and timelines. By comparing expenses to the estimated budget, you can monitor project progress and keep costs in check.

For those with large families or kids, MobiSheets proves useful in creating a shared family calendar or schedule, facilitating coordination and organization with columns for dates, events, and participants to track family activities, appointments, and commitments. You can also use color-coding and conditional formatting to highlight different event types or people, and pivot tables to keep it all clear.