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.

I have a little follow-up slash post-vacation slash tidbits episode for you today, as well as some discussion of the Hobonichi release and some other planner releases that I'm getting excited about for 2025.

Yes, it's August and we're already starting to think about next year's planners.

It happens too soon every year, but I have to admit it is kind of fun for me.

So if it is fun for you, I hope you enjoy listening to a few previews of what is to come.

But first, I have a couple of fun ideas that I wanted to share with you all that have just

been sitting here waiting

to be included in an episode. And the first two were inspired by the trip I just took. So the first one

actually comes from my friend, Caitlin Lopez, who blogs at gratefulk.com. I met her through blogging, but she's become a great,

in real life friend of mine. We're always sharing ideas. We think very similarly about certain things

and differently about others. She loves digital planning and I love paper. But she mentioned her

paid time off spreadsheet. And I remember that I actually used to have one similar to hers,

but I don't think I had set mine up to be as automated or as functional as hers was.

And when I saw hers, I was like, oh, I need one too.

And I created my own.

But she gets all the credit for the idea.

And basically what this is is a spreadsheet that

goes by pay period or by week and shows the days accrued and the days used. So you can basically

play with it and see throughout the year how you're going to be using up your paid time off

if you have a fixed amount with your job. So it's hard for me to describe,

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