Gracia Kleijnen on Medium curated some lists

Gracia Kleijnen

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Gracia Kleijnen

Google Sheets (Free Templates & How-To's)

24 stories

Google Sheets Expense Tracker Tab with new scorecards: Days left until end of the month, your daily budget (across all categories), money left to spend today, and your weekly budget.

Screenshot of 2024 Social Media Calendar

Two months in the author’s yearly time tracking mosaic

Gracia Kleijnen

Comics

23 stories

Two Blobs hiking in the southern German mountains. The blue Blob on the left wears a blue shirt, has a bob hairstyle and orange backpack. Our Blob, on the right, wears an orange baseball cap, red shirt, and black backpack. Blue blob: “Are you from the region?” Blob: “Hmm. No?”

A Blob and therapist doing online therapy. Therapist: “Tell me. How’s it going?“ Blob: “All good! Can’t complain!”

Blob is at a therapists office, lying on a blue couch. To its left the therapist with dark curly hair, glasses, and a notebook. Blob: “And then I told them to fuck right off!” Therapist: “Hmhm.”

Gracia Kleijnen

UX Design & UX Writing

16 stories

Ux writing challenge day 14. Scenario: A user is shopping using a price comparison app that boasts “real-time” pricing on items. As they are checking the price of an item, something goes wrong. The problem is unknown. Challenge: Write a message that informs the user that they cannot access the app right now. You cannot specify “why” the app doesn’t work, you also want them to continue using the app. Headline: 30 characters max Body: 120 characters max Button(s): 15 characters max

Gracia Kleijnen

YouTube Growth

2 stories

Silver play button (unfortunately not mine)

Hands holding a Rode Wireless Go

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Side Hustle Experiments

12 stories

Male standing at the side of a waterfall wearing a cap, sporty clothes, arms up in the air, he looks happy.

The author holding up “The Bumble Diaries: How to Make online dating fun again” in front of her house plants

Gracia Kleijnen

Language learning

5 stories

White sign on metal pole in flowery summer garden, in German, reading “Unbefugt wachsende Pflanzen werden kostenpflichtig entfernt! Der Eigentümer”

Pink and blue sunset skies. City skyline view of Berlin, Germany with the TV Tower, as seen through a ledge

Two Blobs hiking in the southern German mountains. The blue Blob on the left wears a blue shirt, has a bob hairstyle and orange backpack. Our Blob, on the right, wears an orange baseball cap, red shirt, and black backpack. Blue blob: “Are you from the region?” Blob: “Hmm. No?”

Gracia Kleijnen

Culture, travel & living abroad

7 stories

Amsterdam canals in autumn with orange and brown leaves on the trees and floating on the canal alongside small boats.

Berlin and the Fernsehturm in the background taken from a bridge above a train station

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Peak Your Productivity📈

10 stories

A computer screen displaying a dashboard with two pie charts reading “Focusmate session length” and “Locations worked from”, one Session Milestones table, a “FM Work Categories” bar chart, 3 scorecard charts reading “total hours spent in FM sessions”, total days spent in FM sessions”, and “daily average time on FM in hours”. A purple “Book a session button in the lower right corner.

Person working at a desk with a laptop showing a male in full-screen on a video call. Next to the laptop lies an open book. The person partly in the frame holds their hand up, as if explaining something to the person on-camera.

White woman and man in a Zoom video call

Gracia Kleijnen

Dating

22 stories

Cis white married couple in mountaineous scenery on top of a hill. Groom in a suit, the bride in a dress. Sun slowly setting.

Couple locking arms around other persons neck. To the left, a black male with short hair. We see him from the back. On the right, a white female, smiling.

Blob and Romeo play a game of table tennis. Smash!!! Grunting noises!!

Gracia Kleijnen

Building a Writing Empire ✒️

17 stories

The author holding up “The Bumble Diaries: How to Make online dating fun again” in front of her house plants

pop art illustration of a country road leading off into the distance, with gently rolling hills in the background

Gracia Kleijnen

Mental Health

13 stories

Woman with red hair standing in a field with sunflowers, her hair whipped in front of her face so that her face can’t be seen

Young girl with blonde hairs and white longsleeve holding her hands in front of her eyes

Parent figure on the left whose head isn’t showing, only the upper body and upper part of the legs. The parent figure is white and wears a brown T-shirt and blue pants. A kid Blob in the lower right corner holds up a drawing of a stick figure. “Look what I made!” it says. The response is “Art is for losers…”

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Medium

1 story

Man sitting on sofa with laptop on coffee table, notebooks, a phone and a candle, writing by hand.

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UX Writing

1 story

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Dance

2 stories

Dimly lit room with spotlight on a dance circle. Inside the dance circle is a breakdancer doing floor moves. An MC or the breakdancer’s opponent stands behind them. At the edge of the spotlight an audience of around 20 people.

Female dancer dressed in light white clothing, moving in an empty park next to a tree with leaves on an early sunny morning

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Writing Prompts

3 stories

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Relationships

12 stories

Blob on the left wearing a purple shirt thinking “What is hér deal?”. On the right a blonde white girl wearing a black hoodie and sticking her tongue out while looking straight at the camera.

On the right: The Blob sitting on a bed in a dimly lit, dark, shadowy room, her face lighting up from the smartphone screen. On the left: A fake text message conversation with a pregnancy announcement along with a photo, and a cheerful reply with a congratulations.

Interracial heterosexual couple of white male and brown-skinned female with short curly hair. The mom is holding a 2 year old on her lap and they’re reading her a story from a big, brown, old-looking book. They are sitting on a living room floor next to the couch.

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Tooling Tips 🛠

3 stories

Dual monitor setup with laptop and iPad placed on a pile of 4 books, connected via Duet Display app.

Work from home setup with wooden desk, sat directly at a small window, with minimal appliances, several small plants, a macbook on a standard, a keyboard and a mouse. On the wall there is a cork board with pinned images into it.

Gracia Kleijnen

Gracia Kleijnen

she/her

Book Author

Google Sheets & comic creator. Words on productivity, self-development, relationships & mental health in 49+ pubs. 2x Author. https://linktr.ee/graciakleijnen

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