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.

Today I have for you a Q&A episode for December.

So the very last one of the calendar year,

super excited to share some of these great questions that I got. But I've also had a request to share

how I set up my Hobonichi weeks, or more specifically, the book that I use in addition to my planner

to track all kinds of things

throughout the year. I talked about how last year in 2024, I used a cloth and paper disc bound

planner that had a beautiful leather cover for this purpose. I put my books read in there,

my to be read list, had sections for goals, all kinds of stuff. In the end,

it worked pretty well, but it was a fairly bulky item with the leather cover and the

discs and the thick, luxurious paper. And so for 2025, I decided to go for something a

little bit more transient. So it's not discbound. I won't be able to

keep it forever. It's a one year book. But on the plus side, it fits in all of my bags and I can

carry it with me without a second thought. So I'm using Hobonichi Weeks Mega. I got the lemon

water color and it's light sky blue with like a yellow lettering, so very

peaceful looking. And I've already started delving into it and setting it up. So I'm happy to share

how I'm using the various sections in this hobonichi weeks to really kind of track all sorts

of things and keep track of my goals and lists and things for

2025. I will say the one downside of using a book like this is that the pages aren't easily

reusable. So in order to keep various things that I have in here as a reference for the future,

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