Templates
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Every template is written from scratch for Untangling, with real prompts inside the topics — not empty boxes labelled “Idea 1”.
5 Whys
Drill from a symptom to a cause you can actually fix, one "why" at a time — the simplest root-cause method there is.
PreviewBlog post outline
Plan a post that answers the search intent in the first paragraph and earns the rest of the reader’s time.
PreviewBook notes
Capture a book so you can use it later — the argument, the evidence, your disagreements, and what you will actually change.
PreviewBrand positioning
Category, audience, difference and proof — the four decisions everything else in marketing depends on.
PreviewBusiness model canvas
The nine blocks of a business on one canvas — who you serve, what you charge, and what it costs to deliver.
PreviewBusiness strategy
Where to play and how to win, expressed as choices rather than aspirations — with the trade-offs written down.
PreviewCampaign brief
The one-page brief a creative team can actually work from — single audience, single message, single measurable outcome.
PreviewCareer plan
Where you want to be, what stands between you and it, and the smallest next step you can take this month.
PreviewCause and effect
The fishbone, or Ishikawa, method — sort candidate causes into six families so you check the boring ones too.
PreviewCompetitor analysis
Map the field honestly — including the competitor most teams forget, which is the customer doing nothing at all.
PreviewConcept map
Map how concepts relate rather than merely listing them — the relationships are what you get examined on.
PreviewContent plan
Pillars, formats and a publishing rhythm — so the calendar fills itself instead of needing a new idea every Monday.
PreviewCustomer journey
Every stage from first hearing about you to telling someone else, with the moments where people actually drop out.
PreviewDecision matrix
Score options against weighted criteria so a decision survives the meeting where someone asks "but why?".
PreviewEmpathy map
What a user says, thinks, does and feels — the gap between the first two is usually where the insight lives.
PreviewEmployee onboarding
A new starter’s first ninety days planned as outcomes rather than a list of accounts to create.
PreviewEssay outline
Argument-first essay planning: state the claim, marshal the evidence, and deal with the strongest objection rather than the weakest.
PreviewEvent planning
Everything an event needs, from the guest list to the thing that always gets forgotten until the morning of.
PreviewExam revision
Revision organised by confidence, not by chapter — so your time goes to the topics that will actually cost you marks.
PreviewFeature prioritisation
Sort a backlog by impact, effort and confidence — and force the conversation about what drops off the list.
PreviewGo-to-market plan
How a product reaches its first thousand customers — segment, message, motion and the metric that proves it works.
PreviewGoal setting
Turn vague intentions into goals with a next action attached — including what you will stop doing to make room.
PreviewHiring scorecard
Define what good looks like before you meet anyone, so interviews test the role rather than likeability.
PreviewIdea storm
A structured brainstorm that separates raw ideas from the ones worth building, so a fast session still ends with a decision.
PreviewJob search
Run a search like a pipeline — target list, materials, applications and follow-ups all in one place.
PreviewLean canvas
A one-page startup plan built around the problem rather than the solution — designed to be filled in before you build anything.
PreviewLesson plan
A single lesson planned backwards from what students should be able to do by the end of it.
PreviewLiterature review
Organise a body of research by argument rather than by author, so the gap your work fills becomes obvious.
PreviewMarketing plan
Audience, message, channels, budget and measurement — a plan you can actually execute rather than a deck you present once.
PreviewMeeting notes
Capture a discussion as it happens: context, threads, decisions and actions, without losing the shape of the conversation.
PreviewMoving house
The full sequence of a move, including the admin that only becomes urgent once you have already moved.
PreviewOKR planning
Objectives and key results for a quarter, with the discipline most OKR docs skip: what you are not doing.
PreviewOne-to-one agenda
A recurring one-to-one that is theirs, not yours — with space for the things people rarely raise unprompted.
PreviewOrganisation chart
Reporting lines and responsibilities laid out top-down — useful for onboarding, planning and spotting single points of failure.
PreviewPESTLE analysis
Scan the six external forces that shape a market — the things you cannot control but must plan around.
PreviewPerformance review
A review built on evidence gathered over the period rather than the last three weeks anyone can remember.
PreviewProduct requirements
A PRD as a map: problem, users, scope, success measures and the open questions that still need answering.
PreviewProduct roadmap
A themes-and-outcomes roadmap rather than a dated feature list — the version that survives contact with reality.
PreviewProject plan
Scope, milestones, risks and owners on one canvas — the view a project needs before anything lands in a task tracker.
PreviewProject retrospective
A blame-free look back that produces changes, not just feelings. Structured so quiet team members get heard.
PreviewPros and cons
A structured weigh-up that goes further than two columns — it asks what would have to be true for you to change your mind.
PreviewResearch proposal
Question, method, contribution and feasibility — the four things a supervisor or funder is actually assessing.
PreviewRisk assessment
Identify, rate and assign every risk — separating the ones you mitigate from the ones you simply accept.
PreviewSEO strategy
Clusters, intent, technical health and the honest question of which terms a site of your authority can actually win.
PreviewSWOT analysis
The classic four-quadrant scan, extended with the question most SWOTs skip: what are we actually going to do about it?
PreviewSocial media plan
Pick the platforms you can actually sustain, decide what you post there, and define what a good week looks like.
PreviewSprint planning
A sprint laid out as commitment, capacity and risk — with an explicit stretch list so overcommitment is visible.
PreviewStory structure
Plot a narrative across its turning points — for fiction, a screenplay, or any talk that needs to hold an audience.
PreviewStudy notes
Turn a chapter or lecture into a map you can actually revise from — concepts, definitions, examples and the questions you still have.
PreviewTrip itinerary
Plan a trip without over-planning it — the bookings that must be made, and deliberate space left unscheduled.
PreviewUser persona
A persona built from evidence rather than imagination — including the line most personas miss: what would make this person leave.
PreviewUser story map
Lay the user journey across the top and slice releases down the side, so scope cuts remove depth rather than steps.
PreviewValue proposition
Connect what customers are actually trying to get done to what your product does about it.
PreviewVideo script
Structure a video around the first eight seconds, because that is where most of the audience decides to leave.
PreviewWeekly plan
A personal planning map that starts with the one thing that matters and protects time for it.
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