Heather Phillips

Heather comes from a background of user experience design & customer support. She loves helping others learn, explore and discover better ways to use applications and products that improve their lives. When she’s not coaching customers on Tiller best practices, tweeting or writing blogs, she’s probably at a yoga class, out for a hike in the Blue Ridge, or off volunteering for a variety of non-profits.

Joined: October 25, 2017
Articles: 109

Money Management

4 Simple Steps to Securing Your Online Financial Accounts

Focus your “create-a-really-strong-password” energy first on your accounts with your banks, your email, your social networks, and your cloud providers who store personal information.

Heather Phillips
February 5, 2019

Money Management

3 Steps to Get Started With Any Personal Budget Program

Whether you’re new to budgeting or have been doing it for years, these three quick steps will guide your budgeting program toward success.

Heather Phillips
November 7, 2018

Money Management

3 Benefits of Manually Tracking Spending in a Spreadsheet

5 Reasons to Use a Spreadsheet to Manage Your Money and 3 Reasons Not To

Auto-categories are useful in many finance apps and tools (including Tiller-powered Google Sheet templates) but there are several benefits to manually categorizing transactions.

Heather Phillips
October 29, 2018

Tiller Tips and Updates

Using The Tiller Budget Google Spreadsheet to Track Vacation Savings

Using The Tiller Budget Spreadsheet to Track Vacation Savings

Heather shares how she used the Tiller Budget spreadsheet template to track and manage a savings goal for a recent adventure vacation in Colorado.

Heather Phillips
September 17, 2018

Spreadsheet Tips, Tiller for Couples

Using Tags to Track Shared Expenses in Google Sheets

When you’re splitting budget categories down the middle it can be tricky to know who has spent the most so far in a month. Our tags spending tracker Google Sheet makes this an easy riddle to solve. Learn how to get started with shared expense tagging in your Tiller spreadsheet.

Heather Phillips
June 24, 2018

Tiller Tips and Updates

Your Budgeting Google Sheet Reimagined

We’ve made budgeting in a Google Sheet even easier with the release of our new budget template. Of course powered by Tiller’s automatic daily feed of bank transactions and balances, we’ve kicked it up a notch with some awesome new features to help you budget your way.

Heather Phillips
May 21, 2018