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Best Laid Plans

August Q&A: Hobonichi, Taylor Swift, and More EP 265

Best Laid Plans

Sarah Hart-Unger

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Self-improvement, Education

4.8756 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, Sarah shares two things that made her (tough) week, and then answers 6 questions from the August Q&A collection!Topics include:- Can you use Apple Notes to include attachments + graphics- Big projects: fewer longer sessions, or consistent shorter ones?- Ideal week during the newborn phase: yay or nay, and suggestions for an alternative if not?- Are there circumstances where a 'work specific' planner can make sense?- Work & rest-of-life planning sessions: separate or together?- How long does it take to implement the routines of the nested planning sessions?Get your questions to Sarah and you may hear the answers on a future episode! Email at sarah hart unger @ gmail or leave a comment on the show notes at theshubox.com.Remember the newsletter comes out at the start of each month -- we're close to September, so sign up at theshubox.com/newsletter to receive it! Episode Sponsors IXL: Learning doesn't have to stop in the summer!  Best Laid Plans listeners can get an exclusive 20% off IXL membership when they sign up today at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ixl.com/plans⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.  Green Chef: Make this summer your healthiest yet with Green Chef. Head to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠greenchef.com/50BESTLAID⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and use code 50BESTLAID to get 50% off your first month, then 20% off for two months with free shipping. PrepDish: Healthy menu plans and prep instruction to take the mental load out of dinner!   Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠PrepDish.com/plans⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for your first 2 weeks, FREE.   Mint Mobile:  Affordable unlimited wireless!  Get your new customer offer and your 3-month Unlimited wireless plan for $15 a month at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠mintmobile.com/BLP Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:14.1

where we talk all things planning and planning adjacent. If my voice does not sound entirely

0:20.4

its normal self, that's because I had a really

0:23.4

rough week. I caught some kind of a virus from my kids and I'm just coming out of it. And I really

0:29.4

spent the week just functioning, but barely. I also felt like, and this is not to whine, people

0:37.4

have lots and lots of stuff going on

0:39.2

with their health, but you guys know I have this arrhythmia issue that I deal with kind of normally

0:44.5

on a day-to-day basis. It doesn't bother me very much, but when I got sick, it bothered me more.

0:49.0

And so that was like an extra layer on top of getting sick. And so it was a tough week. I even had two out of three of my kids

0:56.6

go back to school, which is usually a joyous and fun time of year for me. But it was definitely like

1:02.5

kind of, I don't know, saddened by the fact that I was not operating at 100%. I think I am coming

1:09.1

out of it now, though, which is great because my third kid is going

1:13.1

back to school tomorrow. I'm recording this on a Sunday because, again, rough week. And yeah,

1:18.7

you'll be hearing this a week after. But hopefully it's also been a really nice reentry for the three

1:24.7

of them because I'm counting my Q4 as actually beginning with. They're all back to school. For me, that's kind of when I feel like things really begin.

1:32.1

I will share two bright spots that I had in addition to the back to school fun over a rough

1:37.4

week last week. And those two things are number one, the Hobonichi release. Yes, I have been

1:43.4

following it. They've been kind of releasing

1:45.3

covers and little tidbits day by day since August 1st. And my favorite two kind of little mini

1:53.4

reveals so far have been the beautiful covers from Kiyohe Sakaguchi. They are sky themed. One of them is like a blue sky with clouds and

2:04.0

it's an autumn skies. You can see a little bit of a plant matter that kind of like gives you the season.

2:11.1

And then the other one is an autumn like morning sky with clouds or Atman's not autumn. It's just a

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