Hello and welcome to best laid plans. This is your host, Sarah Hart Unger, and this is the podcast

where we talk all things planning and planning adjacent. Today I have for you our July

Q&A episode. I have a little bit of a backlog of questions, so let's see how many of them I can get through today. As always, thank you so much for sending these in. These make doing the podcast so much fun so I can address some of your questions and provide my thoughts and also share some of your awesome insights and planner

piece submissions like I have two for you today. So we will get going with these, but just a note of

appreciation to keep them coming because they really are a lot of fun to talk about. And I think

that they are some of my favorite episodes to do. All right, here we go.

Here is a planner piece submission, and I will share a visual,

as this person did send me some images and said I could post them.

So in the show notes, there'll be a visual to accompany the submission.

This person writes, I'm a professor, a director of a research lab, and mother of two young kids

ages six and two. I've tried so many things over the years to manage my life, paper lists,

Apple Notes, To Doists, Hobaniches, Bullet Journals, etc. But recently, I discovered what works for

me after a period of overwhelm. TLDR, it's just one

big, long to-do list. I thought I had outgrown this method since my life feels more complicated

post-kids, but my brain apparently likes it better and can't handle more than one list.

Now, this is Sarah again, interjecting into this person's system.

Later in this episode, we're going to talk about weekly task lists and task management.

And some of my methods differ from what this person does.

And at the same time, I think both are valuable.

And so I wanted to share what this person does.

All right.

Going back to her submission. She writes,

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