Just Three Places
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Know every job has been invoiced.
Answer a client's question immediately.
Quote with confidence. File without dread.
Stop hunting at midnight for the receipt you know you kept.
This is what a working creative business feels like when every piece of incoming information has a fixed home.
Stop losing track of the details that matter most.
A digital guide for creative business owners
If you take bespoke or custom orders and the background noise of managing it all has become something you carry around with you rather than something you actually manage — this is for you.
Price: £47
One-time purchase. Yours to keep.
Why custom work feels heavier than it should
Every job is different. Every client, every brief, every timeline. Nothing repeats — and because nothing repeats, every job generates information that arrives from a different direction and has no obvious home.
It isn't that you have too much to manage. It's that nothing has a fixed home.
This isn't a memory problem. It isn't a discipline problem. It's a structure problem — and it has a surprisingly simple solution.
What is Just Three Places?
Three fixed homes for every piece of incoming business information, plus a simple Google Sheet that makes everything searchable and findable. And a clever bit of automation that means a photograph taken on your phone becomes a searchable record before you've put it down.
I have been running a bespoke commission business on the Isle of Man for twenty seven years. This is the system that keeps it calm. I wish I'd had it from the start.
Before and After
BEFORE — You'll stop wondering:
Where did I put that enquiry?
Did I reply to that message?
What exactly did the client ask for?
Where is that receipt?
What deadline did I promise?
AFTER
Because everything will have a fixed home from the moment it arrives. Not filed away properly eventually. Captured immediately — even when your hands are full, even when you're in the middle of something else.
Everything in your folder
A guide to the three places — what they are, why each one works, and how to set them up in your own business in an afternoon
A simple Google Sheet — three tabs, one for each place, with a link from every entry back to its source document. Dropdown fields keep updating fast. Search by anything in under a minute
How to Use Your Sheet — a separate step-by-step walkthrough with screenshots and video guides
Setup instructions for the email capture automation — photograph anything on your phone, send it to a dedicated address, and it's immediately logged and stored without you touching a computer
Real examples from a working creative business — not theory
Before you start
A smartphone — any model, this is how you capture information on the go
A laptop, desktop or tablet to access your Google Sheet
A Google account — free, takes five minutes if you don't have one
A new Gmail address for your capture inbox — also free, setup instructions included
No paid software. No subscriptions. Nothing to install.
Who built this
Stone engraver, designer and creative based on the Isle of Man. Twenty seven years of bespoke commission work — and everything this system is built on comes directly from that experience. Nothing borrowed, nothing theoretical.
Rosie Glassey — rosieglassey.co.uk
Just Three Places
A practical digital guide for creative business owners managing bespoke and custom work.
£47 | One-time purchase | Instant download | Yours to keep
Rosie Glassey is stone engraver, designer and creative based in the Isle of Man. Just Three Places, The Community Noticeboard, and twenty-seven years of making things to order.
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