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. If my voice sounds more warmed up than usual,

it's because I just recorded 10 minutes and realized that I wasn't actually recording.

So even those of us who have been podcasting for a number of years as I am will have recording fails.

And today is one of them.

That's too bad because I was really, really enthusiastically talking about my current new planning sidekick.

And I hope I can convey as much enthusiasm

the second time around. Well, enough of that behind the scene stuff. Today's episode, I'm going

to be interviewing Jade Boyd because she came to me with expertise on a digital platform

for task management and organization that I didn't even

really know existed until I heard from her. And I think her expertise applies widely to those of us

who are looking for digital solutions for our organization, life management, and task management

needs. So I think this is going to be a really fun and useful episode, especially for those

who enjoyed hybrid planning. But before we get into that, I just wanted to chat a little bit about

my current unexpected diversion into a new or old paper planning technique. Okay. So taking a step back,

I have been in a little bit of planner angst recently.

After loving being in my Hobonichi cousin for about four and a half months, I just started to feel like

I needed a new view on things. I was feeling stuck with a few tasks. And sometimes when I

have that feeling, looking at things differently, writing things out in a little bit of a

different formation can really help me bring clarity. It's when I bring in tools like the ideal

week, but again, also sometimes just kind of seeing my days laid out a little bit differently

can be helpful if I am feeling stuck. So I experimented with a number of things I played with

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