Tracking All The Things: How Much is Too Much? EP 290

Best Laid Plans

Sarah Hart-Unger

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

4.9 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In the first part of this episode, Sarah shares some listener follow up to the Task Management episode from 2 weeks ago, including use of Apple Reminders voice entry feature, a simple Notes strategy, Teux Deux, and one listener's analog solution.Then, Sarah delves into her current thoughts on tracking, which have shifted a bit since her initial episode on the topic. She shares ways in which tracking various metrics has been helpful in recent months and presents a unique use case submitted by listener also named Sarah (a martial artist who blogs at sarahbadatrichardson.com). Our Sponsors Mint Mobile: Affordable wireless plans that let you keep your own number and phone. To make the switch, visit ⁠⁠mintmobile.com/BLP ⁠⁠ Green Chef: Visit ⁠⁠greenchef.com/bestlaidgraza⁠⁠ and use code bestlaidgraza to get started with 50% off Green Chef and FREE Graza Olive Oil set in your 2nd and 3rd boxes. IXL: Make an impact on your child’s learning, get IXL now. BLP listeners get an exclusive 20% off IXL membership when they sign up today at ⁠⁠ixl.com/plans⁠⁠. PrepDish: Healthy meal plans straight to your inbox (and now with easy Instacart ordering!). Visit ⁠⁠prepdish.com/plans⁠⁠ for a free 2-week trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Best Laid Plans.
0:11.0	This is your host, Sarah Hart Unger, and this is a podcast where we talk all things planning
0:15.3	and planning adjacent.
0:17.3	Today, I'm going to start by following up on the task management episode we had two weeks ago.
0:23.4	I was going to do a Q&A today, but I couldn't help sharing this roundup of awesome tips that you guys sent in regarding your own task management.
0:32.5	So we're going to start with that.
0:34.1	And then I've just been doing a lot of reflection lately on tracking. I actually did an
0:39.7	episode on this topic way back in the day, but I think it's time to revisit it. So I think you
0:44.6	will kind of be interested in maybe some of my new revelations on that topic. Before we begin,
0:51.5	I want to mention something that I've discovered, which is that you can actually
0:55.5	leave a comment or a question for this show on Spotify. I know not everybody listens on Spotify.
1:01.7	In fact, I think it's about between 10 and 12 percent of you based on the stats that I get,
1:08.4	but that still is a solid chunk of people. And perhaps if you now know
1:12.2	that you can leave comments or questions on Spotify, maybe that will be a more convenient option for
1:16.9	some of you. But I actually didn't know they were there. So this is partly an apology. If you had left me
1:22.4	a question or a comment like way back in the day months ago, I didn't answer it because I didn't
1:27.0	even know how to get to the section where you can answer. But lately, I figured it out. And I just wanted to let you all know that that is one easy way to leave a note on an episode or share a question or things like that. So if you want to play with that with today's episode, go ahead and do it. I also accept questions as always via my email,
1:45.4	which is my name, sarah with an h.heart, h-a-r-t-r-h-h-a-r-t-r-t-r-t-r-t-mell.com. And I will be coming up with a Q&A episode before the end of February. So please go ahead and get your questions in. All right.
1:59.3	So we're going to start with the first half of this episode, which is follow up from our
2:02.9	airtight task management episode from two weeks ago.
2:06.4	I will link to that just in case you're a new listener and haven't seen that.
2:09.8	But in that episode, I talk all about the tenets of successful airtight task management,
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