Top 3 Low- and No-code Databases for Creative Entrepreneurs

Interactive spreadsheets help free up your time

Unless stated otherwise, all pictures in the article are by the author. Brands belong to their respective owners and are used for information purposes.

If you are like me and run your own practice (business, freelancing, publishing, whatever you want to call it), you probably use some form of a spreadsheet. I started managing my finances, client relationships, time, and other things by creating spreadsheets in Google Sheets (and even before that in classic Excel).

The advantage of Google Sheets is undoubtedly their accessibility from any platform equipped with a modern browser. Furthermore, Sheets can be extended using Google Apps Script (the equivalent of Visual Basic from Microsoft Office, I believe).

🔔 Want more articles like this? Sign up here.

Why creators need no-code platforms

Google Sheets are great, but the more I’ve used them, I’ve noticed a certain regularity. Every time I set up a new sheet to manage some project, there was a certain group of actions and elements that repeated between different sheets:

• Date columns for deadlines & marking updates,
• Columns with dropdown select,
• True/false columns in form of checkboxes,
• VLOOKUP and similar search functions,