Hello and welcome to episode three of best laid plans. Today we are going to talk about

my current system, which is always in flux, but I figure I owe it to you to at least go through the products that I'm using right now and I'll kind of walk you through organically as I hold on to this actual system, as well as some no experiments I've been playing with lately, and then finally, a brief

overview of some of the digital systems that I use to keep organized. Because even though I

absolutely love paper, I will admit that not everything is best organized on paper. And I do

believe that for many people, the hybrid approach can be a really nice way to combine those two

strategies to really be able to have that tactile experience and visual experience of paper,

but also be able to collect easily searchable information in the digital realm. So here we go. We're

going to talk about my current planner, which is a

hobonichi Techo cousin. I know I mentioned that in a prior episode, but just in case you

missed it, that is what I am mostly using now. And again, I play with my system a lot, and I'll

admit that I actually in the last week have taken a foray into bullet

journaling, which I will talk about later. But for now, we'll kind of go back one week because

for months and years before that, I have used this beautiful homoichi. So the homonichi

Techo cousin is in the A5 size and it has both daily, weekly, and monthly

views.

They have very beautiful covers that are all different styles.

I mean, they have plain black leather covers, plain colored leather covers, different fabric

covers, really simple nylon covers, and then they often

have a number of different kind of pattern and stylized covers. And this year, I chose a beautiful

print of a lake. It was a photo actually that was printed onto the cover taken by Hiroshi

Hatano. And the lake itself is in Japan of course

because that's where the Hobonichi planners are made and it's just this beautiful serene scene

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