Printables
design for paper first — the screen is the easy part
How do you make something people want to print, pin up, and use — without hiring a designer?
You don't have a taste problem.
You have a print problem.
You've seen how well planners, trackers, and wall charts work as magnets — you just don't think of yourself as a designer. So you either make something plain nobody would bother printing, or you sink a week into Canva and it still looks off the moment it leaves the screen. Sound familiar?
You design on screen and never print a test. At launch you discover the font's too small, the margins too tight, or the colors muddy on paper — things a single test page would have caught.
You make a PDF of a blog post. No write-in spaces, no physical utility — nothing that gives anyone a reason to actually press print.
You over-design and drown the page in ink. Heavy backgrounds and full-bleed color eat toner and make the user's printer groan — so the file gets downloaded and never printed.
You forget home printers have margins. You run content edge to edge, and the printer clips the part that mattered — because the design ignored how paper actually works.
From muddy Canva exports to printables people actually pin up
"I made a planner in Canva but it looked amateurish once I printed it — wrong margins, tiny text, no room for the hole-punch. I gave up and stuck to digital-only."
"Now I have printables people actually print and use. The design is clean, the content works off-screen, and the opt-in converts because the preview looks worth printing."
The shift: a printable isn't a PDF that looks nice on screen — it's designed for paper first. Margins, bleed, font size, and ink coverage come before aesthetics. Function on paper is the constraint that makes printables work.
You don't just watch lessons.
You leave with 12 real artifacts.
Working documents you actually use — not a Canva file that looks wrong on paper. By the end they add up to print-ready templates, tested content, and a funnel that turns a physical artifact into digital follow-up.
Print Specification Doc
Page size, margins, bleed, safe zone, hole-punch clearance.
Layout Grid Template
Write-in spaces, fold lines, cut marks, visual anchors.
Print Style Guide
Ink-friendly palette, font sizes, survival rules.
Directory / Niche Template
A printable built for your audience's real workflow.
Content Map
What goes where — and why each element earns its spot.
Multi-Page Flow
Use cadence, reading order, standalone-page calls.
Print-Test Report
Home-printer quality, write-in size, ink coverage.
Opt-In Preview Mockups
Desk, clipboard, wall — in-use shots that convert.
Delivery Setup
File formats, email sequence, and print instructions.
Expansion Plan
Seasonal versions, companions, free-to-paid upgrade.
Directory / Niche Promotion
Where your audience already gathers — mapped.
Print Analytics Plan
Opt-in rate, download completion, share tracking.
Three moves: lay it out for print → fill it with use → get it printed
Design
Specs · grid · finishPrint-ready layout that works on paper — not just on screen.
- Specs Set page size, margins, bleed, safe zone, hole-punch room
- Grid Build a layout for physical use — write-in space, folds, anchors
- Finish Apply ink-friendly color and sizes that survive home printers
- Template Create a print template for your directory / niche
Detail
Content · flow · testFill the layout with content worth the cost of printing.
- Content Choose prompts, fields, data, or blank space — and why
- Flow Arrange multi-page printables in a logical use sequence
- Test Print it — check quality, write-in size, and ink coverage
- Populate Fill it with directory / niche-specific content
Distribution
Preview · deliver · multiplyGet printables downloaded, printed, and shared — feeding a digital funnel.
- Preview Create in-use mockups — on a desk, clipboard, pinned up
- Deliver Set up file formats, delivery email, and print instructions
- Multiply Expand into a set — seasonal, companion, free-to-paid
- Promote Push it through your directory / niche channels
More than videos —
a learning system
Every lesson lives in a platform built to help you actually absorb, apply, and return to the work.
AI Chat per lesson
Ask questions and pull key points, action items, and reflections from any lesson.
Searchable transcripts
The full text of every video — search it, scan it, jump straight to the part you need.
Highlights
Mark the passages that matter and filter the transcript down to just your highlights.
Bookmarks
Save the exact moments you'll want to come back to and reopen them in a click.
Notes
Keep personal notes saved right inside each lesson, exactly where you wrote them.
Playlists
Build custom collections of lessons and sequence the path that fits you.
Certificate
Auto-issued the moment you complete every lesson in the course.
Podcast mode
Listen to the course as audio in any podcast app — learn on the move.
Video controls
Closed captions, speed controls, picture-in-picture, and theatre mode — watch your way.
Favorites
Heart any lesson to pin it to your favorites for quick access later.
History & resume
Pick up exactly where you left off — your place is always saved.
Threaded comments
Discuss each lesson with other students in threaded conversations.
Is this course your right next step?
This is for you if…
- You see how planners, trackers, and wall charts pull people in — and want your own.
- You don't consider yourself a designer and keep getting stuck on the look.
- You've made something that looked fine on screen but failed once printed.
- You want a method that starts with print specs, not Pinterest inspiration.
- You want 12 real artifacts ending in a print-ready set and a print-to-digital funnel.
This is NOT for you if…
- You haven't defined your audience or niche yet — start with Foundation first.
- You want a purely on-screen asset — this course is about designing for paper.
- You want a designer to make it for you — this teaches you to produce it yourself.
- You want a sustained daily practice — that's Journals, not a one-time printable.
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Three ways to go deeper
This course is one piece of a bigger system. Here's the whole map — and where you are on it.
University
Learn at your own paceThis course — full University access is $80 on its own.
Launchpad
Get the tools to execute-
Ebook$10narrative deep-dive
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Checklists$15self-assessment diagnostic
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Journal$20reflective application + AI prompts
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Workbook$25full execution tracker
One of each — the full toolkit for this course is $70 on its own.
You're buying the University piece — the course, its platform, and the artifacts you produce. Bundle all three and save — see pricing below. Each column is also available à la carte: University $80, Launchpad $70, Events $280. See how we build →
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Lock in the full bundle today. Every piece ships to your account as it's built — and the price only goes up from here.
$430 value when complete
Everything, for the price of just the course.
- 12 lessons + AI Chat, transcripts, highlights, bookmarks
- Downloads + Cheatsheet + Checklists + Journals shipping soon
- Workshop + Sprint + Challenge access shipping soon
- Certificate on completion
- Clinics included free — $20 each on their own
The price goes up as content ships — the founding price never comes back.
Not ready to commit? Attend our live workshops, sprints, and challenges for free — just show up. No signup, no credit card. If you like what you experience, the founding price locks in everything permanently.
Every piece below ships to your account as it's built — free, at your founding price:
- Printables — 12 lessons Digital$80 valueLive now
- Downloads Digital$10 valueIncluded
- Checklists Digital$15 valueIncluded
- Journal + AI Prompts Digital$20 valueIncluded
- Workbook Digital$25 valueIncluded
- Workshop Events$40 valueIncluded
- Sprint Events$80 valueIncluded
- Challenge Events$160 valueIncluded
- Total value when complete$430You pay $80
↑ as the tools ship, the price rises
↑ as the live events go up, it rises again
Full $430 value, fully builtWhat ships when?+
- Week 1: Workshop Part A (courses 1–3) + Downloads ships.
- Week 2: Workshop Part B (courses 4–6) + video lessons go live + Cheatsheet ships.
- Week 3: Sprint recordings + Checklists ship.
- Week 4: Challenge recordings + Workbook ships.
Or start bigger — the same deal at every scope:
Course
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All 36 Features courses
$960University
All 324 courses
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Founding Access — Printables
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The fifth step of the Magnet journey
Printables is course 5 of 6 — the physical-format course. It comes after Ebook because print design constraints (bleed, margins, paper size, ink coverage) layer on top of the digital design instincts you built across the earlier courses. Next comes Journals — the most sophisticated magnet, built for sustained daily engagement.
You are here — designed for paper, built to use.
You're not doing this alone
Every lesson has a discussion where you share your work and read how others approached the same prompt — so you see the patterns, not just your own answer.
“Post your experience, read two others, and notice the patterns.”
Per-pillar discussion forums are coming as the community grows.
Before you decide
Do I need professional design software?+
No. Canva, Google Slides, even Google Docs can produce print-quality printables if you follow correct specs. The tool matters far less than understanding print constraints.
What's the most popular type of printable?+
Planners and trackers — daily, weekly, monthly — consistently perform best, because they solve a recurring need. One-time worksheets work too, but have a shorter usage life.
What if people save the PDF and never print it?+
That's fine. The same principles — clear layout, write-in spaces, scannable structure — make the document more usable digitally too. Designing for print raises the quality bar for every format.
How do I test it without wasting ink?+
One draft print on a home printer is all it takes to catch the big failures — tiny fonts, tight margins, heavy ink coverage. The course builds that single test into the workflow.
I run a directory business — does this still apply?+
Yes. The fourth lesson of each module builds printable templates for directory operations — tracking sheets, planning pages, audit forms — with a parallel niche track.
What do I actually walk away with?+
12 working artifacts — from a print spec and layout grid to a tested, print-ready set and a funnel that connects the physical artifact to digital follow-up.
What would your audience actually want to print and keep — and how do you design it for paper?
Stop exporting things that look wrong on paper. Set the specs, test the print, and ship a printable people pin to the wall.