Hello and welcome to Best Laid Plans.

This is your host, Sarah Hart Unger, and this is a podcast where we talk all things planning

and planning adjacent. And today is a very special episode. It's our last one in 2025. And I am going to share

where I am with my 2026 goals as of now. But first, I'm going to answer a couple of goals

related Q&A that I received just because I want to make sure I get to them before the end of

the year. And I know that a lot of people are in planner setup mode and goal setting mode.

So I figured I would just go ahead and tackle these.

So the first question comes to us from Jennifer.

And she writes,

I am intrigued by your second brain in Apple Notes idea.

And I do talk about it in a prior episode where I just have kind of my

virtual filing cabinet available in Apple Notes. I paste information there that I know I'm

going to want to reference later. I also write all of my podcast scripts in there and my ad

copy so that I can search for things later on. And she writes, I'm curious, do you exclusively

deal with notes on your phone or do you use ICloud to access them on your laptop as well?

So it never occurred to me that anybody would have thought that I was doing all of that on my phone.

I mean, I'm typing directly into it and I'm doing things very quickly that probably would not be practical to do on my phone. I mean, I'm typing directly into it and I'm doing things very quickly

that probably would not be practical to do on my phone. So yes, the answer is that I use Apple Notes

on my laptop. I am Mac-based. And so currently I have a MacBook Air and I use the Notes app

right on there and it syncs within all of my ICloud enabled devices so it does sync with my phone and what I love about Apple Notes is

that I can put stuff into my laptop but then pull it up on my phone so that I can access

it on the go. I love the searchability. I love that it's just not that fancy, but it does

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