The gap
Freelancers keep clients in one app, hours in another and invoices in a third, so unbilled work and late payments slip through.
Planners and templates
Briefnest
A freelancer hub with clients, projects, tasks, a time log and invoices in five linked databases, for Notion or as a spreadsheet with the same tables and totals.
- Notion (Markdown and CSV import)
- CSV
- Microsoft Excel (.xlsx)
- LibreOffice Calc
- Coming soon
Coming soon
Not published on its store yet, so there is no buy or download link. PN Scripts does not take payment for it here.
What it solves
What it is
Five linked databases that follow a job from lead to payment, with the totals that show what to invoice and what to chase.
How you use it
See unbilled hours, outstanding invoices and project budgets in one place from day one.
For freelancers who want a ready structure in Notion or a spreadsheet instead of designing their own databases.
Who it is for
Use it when
- A designer or developer tracking several clients and invoicing at month end
- Finding billable hours that were never invoiced
- Chasing overdue invoices with ready reminder messages
Built for
- Freelance designers, developers, writers and consultants
- Small studios that bill clients by the hour or by the project
What is inside
From lead to payment
A client starts as a Lead, a project as a Proposal. When the client says yes, tasks get estimates, every work session goes into the Time log, invoices are created from the billable hours or the fixed fee, and payment closes the loop. The How to use page walks through each step.
The numbers that matter
Each project shows hours, billable hours, value, invoiced and still to invoice; each client shows invoiced, paid and outstanding; each invoice shows days overdue. In Notion these are rollups and formulas you add from the setup page; in the spreadsheet they are already there.
Setting it up in Notion
Import the ZIP, set the property types, convert the seven link columns into relations and add the listed rollups and formulas. The setup page gives the exact settings, a manual fallback for any cell that does not link, and three numbers to check at the end.
The spreadsheet twin
The same tables in an .xlsx workbook with drop-down links and formulas, for anyone who prefers Excel, LibreOffice or Google Sheets. A Summary sheet adds hours this month, unbilled work, outstanding and past-due totals and a chart per client.
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Specs
- Availability
- Coming soon
- Vendor
- PN Scripts
- Type
- Template
- Pricing
- One-time purchase Price to be announced.
- License
- PN Scripts Template Licence 1.0
- Deployment
- Download (ZIP with the Notion import package, CSV files and an .xlsx workbook)
- Maturity
- v1.0.0
Compatibility
| Platform or runtime | Supported versions | Tested up to |
|---|---|---|
| LibreOffice Calc (spreadsheet version) | 24.2 or newer | 24.2 |
Stack
- Notion (Markdown and CSV import)
- CSV
- Microsoft Excel (.xlsx)
- LibreOffice Calc
Briefnest is coming soon
It is finished and tested. It is not on sale yet; this page will say where to get it when it is.
Coming soon
Not published on its store yet, so there is no buy or download link. PN Scripts does not take payment for it here.
Questions
A client and project hub for freelancers with five linked databases and six working pages, delivered as a Notion import package and as a spreadsheet.
A Notion workspace for the Notion version, or Excel, LibreOffice Calc or Google Sheets for the spreadsheet. The spreadsheet was tested in LibreOffice Calc 24.2; Notion, Excel and Google Sheets were not opened during testing.
Notion does not import relations, rollups or formulas from files, so these are set up by hand after import with the included steps. There is no invoice PDF generator, payment integration or time tracking app.
The databases, example data, pages and workbook are generated from one schema with Python. Created with AI assistance; the CSV schemas, relation keys, ZIP layout and spreadsheet formulas checked by PN Scripts with automated tests and a LibreOffice recalculation.
It is not on sale yet. When it is, this page will link to the store; PN Scripts does not take payment on this site.