Top 10 Free Friends & Family Templates

Use Notion templates designed for personal connections to stay in touch with friends and family. Use our customizable templates with features like event planners, shared recipe lists, and group chats to create memories that will last a lifetime.

What Should Friends & Family Templates Include?

Choosing the right Friends & Family template in Notion can significantly enhance how you organize and share important moments and information. Here are some key components to look for:

  1. Contact Information: A good template should have a dedicated section for storing contact details like phone numbers, addresses, and email information for easy access.

  2. Event Calendars: Look for templates that include calendars to help track family events, birthdays, anniversaries, and other important dates, ensuring you never miss a special occasion.

  3. Shared Responsibilities: Templates should facilitate the management of tasks and responsibilities, such as chores or planning family gatherings, to promote collaboration.

  4. Photo and Memory Sharing: Opt for a template that offers a space to share and organize photos and other memories, making it easy to reminisce about past events together.

Ultimately, the best template will be one that suits the unique needs and dynamics of your family, fostering better communication and shared experiences.

What Should Friends & Family Templates Avoid?

When selecting a Friends & Family template in Notion, it's important to be aware of certain features that might complicate or clutter your experience. Here are three key components to steer clear of:

  1. Overly Complex Permissions: Avoid templates that require intricate permission settings. These can make sharing and collaboration more difficult than it needs to be.

  2. Excessive Automation: While some automation can be helpful, too much can make the template rigid and hard to customize according to your family's needs.

  3. Non-essential Integrations: Templates that include numerous integrations that aren't essential can slow down your workflow and make the template less efficient.

Choosing the right template should enhance your ability to organize and share important moments and information, not hinder it. Look for simplicity and ease of use to get the most out of your Notion experience.

1Couples Planner

For love nerds out there, this is a collection of our favourite couple's templates in a single bundle. It includes to-do's, finance planner, recipe book, meal planner, home mood board, house hunting tracker, travel and bucket list, purchase planning and social event planning.

A template preview for Couples Planner

2Birthday calendar

Always remember the important dates 💚

The Birthday Calendar is a simple, yet powerful system to organise all birthdays and other anniversaries in one place.

The automated fields help you find out the age, the next anniversary and the days left to the big day.

With the 4 custom views, you can visualise the upcoming events in an easy and satisfying manner.

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3Gift Wishlist

Gift Wishlist helps individuals keep track of the things they want. Items can be categorized and are sortable by name, price, and brand. Share your wishlist with friends and family as the perfect gift guide, and you shall never receive an unwanted gift again!

A template preview for Gift Wishlist

4Baby Essentials Checklist

Keep track and dont forget the essentials with our easy to use Baby Essentials Checklist. Download and get started.

~ What is included in my purchase?
A fully editable baby item checklist/shopping list with the following categories:
- Wardrobe
- Gear
- Health
- Feeding
- Bath
- Diapering
- Nursery
- Safety
+ Extras
+ Space for taking notes!

A template preview for Baby Essentials Checklist

5Family management

This family management template uses Agile to help families stay organized and sane. It includes a Kanban task board, family wiki, weekly review list, recipe board, and more. We've been using it as a family for several months now and it has helped us stay on top of tasks, collaborate more and be more efficient. Less stress and more time enjoying ourselves as a family.

A template preview for Family management

6Contacts

Introducing Notion Contacts:
1. The Productive Way to Manage Your Relationships.
2. Auto Search by First Character.
3. Record Phone Number and Email.
4. Show Your Favorite Contacts.
5. Check Encounter Commemoration.
6. Check the Upcoming Birthday.

A template preview for Contacts

7Wishlist Tracker

Effortlessly manage, categorize, and prioritize your desires with an intuitive interface that simplifies the path from dreaming to achieving.

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8Family Hub - Basic

To get you started we are giving you a basic version of the Family Hub for FREE. It has all the key structures in place so that you can continue to build your Family Hub in bigger and better ways.

Notion spaces can get Chaotic! This set up shows you how to work out of one Hub that holds all the aspects of your life!

It allows you to create, access and edit all your information through easy to use dashboards that can be customised to your needs. The superpower of the family hub is that, behind the scenes, all the data is interconnected. There are a series of related databases that do all the complicated stuff out of sight. It's an approach to building your workspace that provides you with the structure you need to keep heaps of detailed information and have it presented in a format that makes it easy to see exactly what you want and easy to enter things quickly.
- Link all family members.
- Share across households.
- Build on it. Easily keep adding templates!
- Track, store, plan and schedule all things family.

A template preview for Family Hub - Basic

9Baby home

A home for all things baby related. Keep track of upcoming tasks, playdates, and even emergency information for the nanny.

A template preview for Baby home

10Keep in Touch

This template was created out of a realization that I was losing touch with my friends and family due to my busy schedule. It serves as a solution for staying connected with the people I care about on a regular basis. By leveraging Notion, I am able to streamline and organize my communication efforts, ensuring that I reach out to them consistently and maintain strong relationships.

A template preview for Keep in Touch

Closing Thoughts

Utilizing these templates streamlines the organization of gatherings and improves communication among loved ones. They are designed to ensure no detail is overlooked.

Start by choosing a template that resonates with your group's needs. Customize it to reflect personal touches and share it with your circle to enhance collaboration and planning.

What is a Family Tree Template?

A visual tool in Notion for mapping out familial relationships, helping users trace and record lineage and ancestry.

What is a Shared Responsibility Matrix?

A framework used in Notion templates to allocate and track tasks or chores among family members or friends, ensuring accountability and organization.

What is a Contact Information Dashboard?

A centralized Notion template designed to store and manage contact details, important dates, and other relevant information for friends and family members.

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