Hello and welcome to best laid plans.

This is the podcast where we talk all things planning and planning adjacent, and this is your host, Sarah Hart Unger.

Today we are going to talk about a disc bound planner.

A disc bound planner is a planner that is basically bound together by a series of discs.

They can be metal or plastic.

Usually there's a hardcover.

And the pages can move around because instead of being hole punched, well, I guess whole punched pages can also move around.

But the pages in a disc bound planner have holes in them, but they also are removable

without having to open and close any rings because they're not actually closed, if that makes

sense. And if you've never seen a discbound planner, I would encourage you right now to go ahead and either go to the show notes for this podcast, because I'll include a picture of what I'm talking about, or just Google what it looks like.

Because they don't look incredibly secure. There's nothing truly holding them together other than the structure of the paper kind of going around the discs.

But they lend themselves to a really nice

way of being able to turn the pages easily to be able to have it on one side or another, just like a

spiral notebook, but also kind of like a binder you can remove and insert anything in any order

that you would like. And I did not want to try a disc-bound planner for the longest time. I mean,

first of all, I just am not attracted to ring types of planners because I find the rings get in the way

as I am left-handed. I guess if you're right-handed, the rings would still get in the way for the left-hand

side of the page if you're using that. But yeah, I just found

the rings kind of difficult to work around. So if I was using a ring system, I'd have to take each

page out, write on it and put it back in, which is doable. But some rings are pinchy and some rings are

not up to the task of being opened and closed a million different times. And so, I don't know,

I was just never attracted to ring systems.

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