Hello and welcome to best laid plans. This is your host, Sarah Hart Unger, and this is a podcast

where we talk all things planning and planning adjacent. Today we are going to focus on

Hobonichi, their current 2023 offerings, what I'm excited to order,

and more all related to this iconic Japanese planner brand.

But first we are going to start with an on-theam planner piece.

This submission comes from a listener named Sarah.

She lives in Missouri, so I'm not, you know, quoting myself here,

and she works as an in-house attorney, so lots of things to track and lots of tasks to manage.

She wrote that she began with a spring start Hobonichi in April of 2021, influenced by my writing

and on the podcast Best Lay Plan, So thank you, Sarah. She switched from

the Franklin Coffee Planner, which she found quite large. There were thick pages and two-day

daily, so it was hard to refer back to prior entries because the backlog was too heavy to carry

around every day. Sarah was sold by the idea of weeklies, monthlies, daily, and a yearly overview in one

book. And so she chose to get the Hobonichi cousin at that time. She writes that she settled on

using ballpoints instead of gel pens, particularly the Unival Jetstream as it worked best with

the Tomloor River paper, and notes that her spreads tend to be very

minimal on the dailies, just pen, but her weeklies tend to have more fun with decor, stickers,

highlighters, and she enjoys using these both to look back and keep track of tasks and also to

memory keep. So thank you so much, Sarah, for this submission.

She sent in photos as well,

so you can go ahead and go to the show notes,

and I'll include some of the photos that Sarah submitted as well.

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