The Ultimate Guides from Productive Parents
Lighten your household’s mental load. Start with the paperwork.
Done-for-you setups for busy households: a filing system that makes sense, a Mac that does the filing for you, and the apps that keep a home running. Set them up once, and save hours every year. Use them on their own, or with Claude or ChatGPT.
The guides
Pick where to start
Start here · $49.99
Household Filing System
Know what to keep, what to toss, and where every paper goes. Mac or Windows.
For Mac · $49.99
How to Use Hazel
Set up your Mac to file 90% of your paperwork, plus the Bonus: 20-Rule Starter Pack.
Free guide
The Homemaker’s Toolkit
Lighten your mental load: a guide to 11 apps for your calendar, to-dos, and meals.
✦ Want both Ultimate Guides? Add the other one at checkout for just $19.99 (normally $49.99).
How they fit together
Give every paper a place. Let your Mac file it. Let your apps remember the rest.
1. The Household Filing System
Decide what to keep, name every paper the same way, and set up folders that make sense: kind of paper, then account, then year. Works on any computer.
2. How to Use Hazel
On a Mac, Hazel renames each new paper and files it into those folders as it arrives. Its Bonus: 20-Rule Starter Pack is set up for them already.
3. The Homemaker’s Toolkit
For everything that isn’t paper: a free guide to the 11 organizing apps a household runs on, from the calendar and to-do list to meal planning, and which to set up first.
The guides + your AI
Your AI is smart. The guides give it a system.
When every paper has a predictable name in a predictable folder, Claude or ChatGPT can find it, count it, and add it up. It can even write or fix a Hazel rule for you in minutes.
And when your appointments, to-dos, and lists live in the apps the Toolkit recommends, your AI can check your calendar and keep your to-do list current.
The guides are the plan. Your AI is the helper.
From the creator of Productive Parents
I built these guides for my own household first
Hi, I’m Ashley. I had three kids in a year and a half, moved to the suburbs, and was overwhelmed. Not just by the paperwork that comes with owning a home, but by everything else a family has to remember: the appointments, the permission slips, and what’s for dinner.
A scanner, Hazel, and a simple filing system took care of the paper. Our records now hold nearly 20,000 PDFs, all named and filed the same way, and Hazel files most new ones on its own.
A few organizing apps took care of the rest. The whole family’s appointments live in one calendar. Passwords and important small documents are in a password manager we all share. Our finances are in one money app, and new bills land on my to-do list.
I know where everything goes. Every piece of digital information I need to run our household has a home.
Not sure where to start?
Start with the Household Filing System. On a Mac? Add the Hazel guide at checkout for just $19.99.
