October Q&A: An All-Paper Planner Peace, Paper/Digital Hybrid Tips, Managing a Life with Many Moving Parts, and More EP 272

Best Laid Plans

Sarah Hart-Unger

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

4.8 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Today's episode is a very planner-centric Q&A episode (since it's that time of year!). First, Cynthia opens with her planner peace - a mashup of prior BLP mentions, from the Passionate Pennypincher Planner to Planner Pad and a Stalogy notebook! Then, Kristin shares a pro tip for melding her digital planning (via Google calendar) with a paper system that allows for daily notes jotted in pen and a physical representation of the weeks and months. Susie shares a common planning conundrum - she has a life with LOTS of moving parts, but no one system to contain them all. Finally, a listener wonders how to handle events being tentatively booked in advance, while another gives a shout-out to Midori's unique Double Scheduler options (https://www.jetpens.com/Midori-Double-Schedule-Diary-2026-B6-To-Do-Blue) Notes: Yes, you can text your questions to Sarah -- just text (305) 697-71892026 courses are open for registration at theshubox.com/courses. Planning By Season is almost full, so don't wait to register if you are interested! Sponsor Notes: IXL: Make an impact on your child’s learning, get IXL now. Best Laid Plans listeners can get an exclusive 20% off IXL membership when they sign up today at ⁠https://www.ixl.com/plans⁠ Green Chef: Make this fall your healthiest yet with Green Chef. Visit ⁠greenchef.com/50bestlaid ⁠and use code 50BESTLAID to get fifty percent off your first month, then twenty percent off for two months with free shipping. Mint Mobile: Ready to save on your wireless? Make the switch at ⁠mintmobile.com/BLP⁠. PrepDish: Meal plans ready to go, in your inbox each week. You can try 2 weeks free at ⁠prepdish.com/plans⁠! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to best laid plans.
0:11.4	This is the podcast where we talk all things planning and planning adjacent,
0:14.8	and this is your host, Sarah Hart Unger.
0:17.2	If my voice sounds a little bit tired today,
0:20.1	it is because I am in the middle of recording
0:22.5	the audiobook for best laid plans, a simple system for living a life that you love.
0:28.1	It's going well.
0:29.2	It's my very first time recording something officially and professionally.
0:33.4	I get to do it in a real recording studio, which is kind of thrilling.
0:37.1	I actually saw they had these records hanging on the wall and I start looking at them.
0:40.5	And one of them said Till Tuesday on it, which was fun fact.
0:44.9	The band that Amy Mann was part of in like the late 80s and early 90s, her big hit was
0:50.6	Voices Carey in that band.
0:52.5	And apparently they recorded that track.
0:54.8	Now, at that time, the same studio was actually not located in South Florida where I live.
0:58.7	They were in New York, but still, seeing that on the wall was quite a thrill.
1:02.6	Just me and Amy jamming in the studio.
1:06.0	So my book comes out in mid-December, and it will have an audio version that is read by me my very first
1:12.6	audiobook recording if you are interested i don't know if the audio is already ready to pre-order or not
1:18.4	i actually have not checked that but i know that both the kindle edition and the print editions are
1:23.6	available for pre-order so if you're interested in in Best Laid Plans, the book version,
1:28.8	that's out, wherever books are sold and I'm so excited for you guys to read it. But that is not
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