Notion's template gallery has 10,000 options. A solo business needs about seven.

Worth installing

1. Content calendar — pipeline view from idea → published, with a keyword column 2. CRM-lite — clients table with status, next action, last contact 3. Invoice/finance tracker — income vs expenses with a monthly rollup 4. Weekly agenda — one page, linked views of everything due 5. SOP library — every recurring task as a checklist 6. Goal tracker — quarterly objectives with linked projects 7. Swipe file — copy, emails, and designs that worked (your future prompts)

Skip these

Team wikis, OKR frameworks, habit trackers, second brains with 12 databases, and anything requiring a tutorial video longer than your weekly review. Elaborate templates are procrastination in productivity clothing.

Build vs install

Install to learn the patterns, then rebuild minimal versions yourself — you'll actually maintain what you built. Or take the shortcut: the One-Person Tech Stack Blueprint ships all seven pre-built with automation recipes attached.