Hello and welcome to best laid plans, the podcast about planners, planning techniques, and all

things planning adjacent. This is Sarah Hart Unger, and this is episode 35. I don't really remember which episode it is in the middle of season two.

And to be completely honest with you all, I kind of forgot that we were in a second season, and I kept my number inconsistent.

But we are in season two of this podcast. 35 episodes mean it's been going on for about two-thirds of a year now. And so that's kind of

exciting. And where are we in the year? Is that for me, we are about to be finishing with

quintile number one as my oldest heads to spring break next week, although my younger two have

spring break the week after. So that makes it a little bit confusing.

That coincides really nicely with the way that normal quarters of the year work for most people.

So I guess I'm in sync with the rest of the world, those of you who use quarters and those of you who use quintiles. So perhaps we'll have to do a quarterly wrap-up for an episode coming up. But for today, I have the excitement of sharing

some fun products with you all today. The first is going to be a planner, which there's been a lot

of buzz about with the release, and that is the day designer. And I was actually very, very lucky in that a very kind listener to

this podcast named Leslie had some planner fails of her own, including a mini day designer

that she had bought, I guess, for July 2020 to June 2021. I absolutely feel her pain as this was a time in which I went

through a whole slew of planners trying to figure out how to get my life to work. Maybe the

answer wasn't to switch planners 10 times, but actually it turned out to be not the world's worst

coping mechanism. And the benefit of this planner fail for her

was that she offered to send it to me. And she even threw in another one, which I'll discuss

in a future episode. But thank you so much for sending this so that I can try out this beautiful

planning product. And I really am kind of struck by it and I'm actually considering

trying it for real after I've been experimenting with it. So a little bit about the day designer.

The day designer has monthly and daily layouts and a little bit of goal setting material up front.

What it doesn't have that I'm used to using very consistently

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