Kindly CitedForgiving, research-informed templates
Kindly Cited makes templates and trackers that welcome you back after any break. No streaks, no guilt, and every feature shows its sources and their limits. Made with ADHD in mind, and for anyone who's ever felt behind. Our first is a reading tracker, with more templates coming.
Free guides
We're starting with reading. More topics are coming.
How to Get Back Into Reading After a Break (Without Guilt)
You don't have to make up for lost time. Pick something easy, start very small, and treat the break as part of reading, not a failure.
Is It Okay to Not Finish a Book? (Yes. Here's How to DNF Without Guilt)
Yes. Stopping a book is a normal reading choice. Decide on purpose, give the book a place to go, and jot one line so it stops nagging at you.
A Reading Goal That Doesn't Punish You: Pace From Today
If you're behind on a reading goal, recalculate from today instead of catching up. Track what you did read, and keep the goal optional.
Free Reading Tracker for Google Sheets: How to Import and Use It
Download the free .xlsx from Gumroad, then in Google Sheets choose File > Import > Upload. Log a session with three things: the date, the book, and pages or minutes.
Why Our Reading Tracker Has No Streaks
A streak treats one missed day as starting over. We use totals that only go up and a calm welcome back instead, because breaks are part of reading.
Templates
Forgiving Reading Tracker Lite
Free (pay what you want)
A 30-second log, totals for this week, month, and year, and a calm welcome back after any break. A Sources tab shows the research and its limits.
Forgiving Reading Tracker
$12, one-time
Everything in Lite, plus six shelves including “Maybe never” and “Set aside,” series, your year in books, an optional pace goal that recalculates from today, if-then reading plans, time left in your book, and printables.
Our first templates are for reading. More are coming.
Both work in Excel and Google Sheets. Using the free one? Code KINDLY3 takes $3 off the full tracker. Refunds within 7 days, no questions asked.
How we work
- Research-informed, honestly. We cite real studies, link them, and say plainly what they don't show. How we cite.
- Our ideas are labeled as ours. When a feature comes from our own design judgment, we say so.
- Breaks are part of it. Nothing resets, nothing is owed.
- Not medical care. These are planning tools. They don't treat ADHD or any condition.