Hello and welcome to Best Laid Plans. This is your host, Sarah Hart Unger, and this is the show where we talk all things planning and planning adjacent.

Today we are going to do a notebook deep dive.

I don't know what gave me this idea, but I was thinking about different types of planning supplies and realized that I never did a discussion of all of my favorite types of notebooks as well as what I've used notebooks for in the past.

And I'm going to share a fairly sizable list of some of the brands I've used and loved in the past and I'm going to share a fairly sizable lists of some of the brands I've used

and loved in the past and all of the things that I love about them. So this is our deep dive

in notebooks. So first of all, what do you use a notebook for? I will admit I do have more notebooks in my life than I currently

make use of. And that's okay, because I do get some joy in having some blank notebooks

on the shelf that I know are there for me to use when I need them, or even notebooks with a few

pages filled in that I might want to either continue or repurpose. But in the past, I have used notebooks as a place to take notes

on a singular course or topic. I have used notebooks for scheming and dreaming. My husband and I

had a notebook that I mostly filled it out, but we definitely did a lot of it together. It was a lined Orla-Culey

notebook that I'm sure I can't find anymore. It was spiral-bound. It had a little stem print pattern

along the side with really thick white paper and lined. And I would draw out all types of things

about like how we wanted our child care to look and our schedules to look and

where we wanted to live and just kind of lifestyle building and we also have done some vacation

planning in that notebook as well it just became kind of a notebook of dreams and I'm sad because we

used up all of the pages and I don't have a great replacement but that's another purpose for a

notebook you could use

them to take notes at various meetings. Perhaps you start a new one for the year and just take

notes on every meeting that you sit in. I do find that taking notes definitely helps prevent me

from zoning out or reaching for my phone or some other kind of digital distractions. So I think that can be a very

worthwhile use of paper. You might use a notebook to document a personal journey, for example,

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