Hello, Chris here with a quick technical note at the top of the show.

Please let me apologize for the audio quality of this episode.

We had to record in an empty room, and so there's a lot of echo,

and there is a mysterious static-y noise,

probably because we still have not upgraded our microphone setup.

So we will be doing that soon in the new year.

Thank you for your patience,

and I hope you enjoy Mailbag, Volume 3. Can we talk about organizational systems for 2018?

Ooh, yeah. Here's what I mean. And I've been talking to some people I love and trust about this,

but I have a personal planner. Ashley, our events coordinator,

has a personal planner. We have a calendar in store where we keep track of events and hours worked.

I have a word document I create with everybody's hours. We use the When I Work app. We have Google Docs for literally everything.

Yeah.

Is there a way to consolidate any of this?

Because somehow I'm dropping balls.

I don't think so because I mean my system of many post-it notes is still working for me.

But I do have like docs of other things that are like Some of many post-it notes is still working for me.

But I do have, like, docks of other things that are, like, scheduled and that I'm keeping track of. I just feel like things are just...

Balls are dropping.

Balls are dropping like a bad juggler.

I was going to say like they're hot.

Like they're hot.

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