I absolutely love my remarkable!!!!! I have the first generation because it was my sisters and she upgraded to the new one and let me buy off her old one for only 100 USD. It's amazing for all sorts of notes. I'm now a professor and I use it for all my lecture notes, homework solutions and the like.

lol my unread emails is in the 18,000s. To be fair this is 5 accounts and in the last year this number hasn't changed so much the problem is the back log of unread emails.

yeees, i always know it's time for a change when i start tracking things mechanically (bc no longer useful) or skipping it altogether (bc i am struggling to make myself do the good things i meant to do)! so every now and then i start tracking things i wish to do less of 😂 that way i acc feel good ab not filling in the tracker (and then if i'm feeling worse for a while ar least i know why).

Omg how have I not heard about this podcast until today. I like both of your channels.

ReMarkable is AMAZING - and industrious people have made templates for them too so I have been checking those out. And Jess, I use my ReMarkable as a scribble book where I have sketched layouts ideas too 😁😆

Biggest myth I believed is that bullet journaling has to be pretty and esthetic with a bunch of illustrations and color. Cuz I was only seeing that type of bullet journal.

I’ve just discovered the app Twos. It has completely changed my life. It’s quick to add things, it integrates with my calendars, it celebrates when I do something, it has reminders, I can free-form journal in it. I just love it. It’s so helpful for my brain to be able add a to-do within 5 seconds of thinking of it, rather than having to find a pen and my notebook. And it’s free! Completely!

I'm using good notes 5 and I don't care about the update... honestly I bought an iPad just to do 2 things that was procreate and good notes.. it works well enough that I have a blank page and I can do whatever. What I use it for most is designing my sewing projects aka drawing the clothing. Like making the things I draw into stickers so that I can duplicate it like it's nothing... that was one thing I couldn't do in a physical journal. Also just having reference images all over the note book without needing to print them out is a huge step up for me. I do miss having a physical journal that I physically put cute stickers all over but it is not functional for me in the end

First of all, this podcast is exactly what I have been searching for in the planner community ever since I discovered it nine years ago. 💜 I use the Office package at work. I even present my self as Queen of Outlook to my colleagues. (I got the name at an earlier job and it’s still true 😅) We use Google calendar at home because my boyfriend needs to know what is going on and he can read my planner. But for myself I use my frankenplanned Happy Planner, because I’ve always felt that I think better on paper. Looking forward to your next episode, which I might listen to with my boyfriend…

Hey guys! I love your podcast! ❤ Keep it up! Could you do one episode dedicated to your planning systems? Stuff like how you use your system as a whole. For example, do you review the data you collect, do you have reset (weekly, monthly, quarterly) systems, how do you use your pages in relation to each other? Basically your methods

Planner guy here! Just started this year as an attempt to stay organize and help with my ADHD. You both have been instrumental in my learning process...thank you so much for sharing your content!!

I hold my pen the same way Jess! My father hated the way I held it and tried to teach me a different way but this is the only way that feels comfortable to me.

I tried artful agenda for A bit. I hated that if I did not have good cell service or WiFi, I couldn’t access my lists etc. I’d have to take screenshots before going to the store. And just missed the multi sensory of paper. Back in my passion planner and much happier!

i use Artful Agenda on my phone and laptop but it all ends up in my paper planner eventually. I love my paper products and pens way too much to 100% il lol

Only 7 for me.

Awesome episode as usual! Very thought provoking and you've given some good thought to the topic. I used to be heavy into digital planning but the cons outweighed the pros for me, so I'm almost entirely analog. The biggest cons for me ended up being the cost of subscriptions and the way that they go about implementing the subscriptions. I used to use Trello for a long time, but then they limited the free version to be entirely unusable and locked everything behind a subscription. All that work was already in there, and now to use it, I had to pay. The other side is the cost of replacing technology like ipads and computers, and having to be locked into a tech ecosystem. Like Zinnia only works on Apple, so now if you need to replace your tablet, you're stuck with Apple. I cross multiple ecosystems, with an iPhone, iPad, Windows PC, Linux PC and some Android devices that I use from time to time as well, so Zinnia is right out. My biggest pro for analog planning is that my data is mine. With so many stories about our data in the cloud being used for things that we had no idea it would be used for, it's nice to know that my life is not where someone else generally can get ahold of it. It's a tactile thing, too. I love my leather traveler's journal (a gift from my wife, and I smile every time I use it because it was such a thoughtful gift), and I make my own booklets for it with some dot grid loose-leaf, a fun scrapbook cardstock cover, and a bit of saddle stitching, so the cost is really reasonable as well (if you overlook my fountain pen 😅). I loved the sync capability of digital, but I have always needed more than a couple apps to replace everything that I do in my traveler's journal. I can wholeheartedly understand the appeal of digital, though, and I love that the tools and apps available today make it easier and more fun for people to get into planning.

Another planner guy. I have a channel, but it's based on my pipe collecting hobby. I'm a very basic bullet journal guy. I've used a notebook for years and just learned in January how to organize it when I watched Ryder's first video. Digital planning becomes background noise for me. I've only tried a few apps, Google, Outlook, etc. But, the device leads me to distractions-- emails, Facebook, RU-vid, etc. Every Sunday, I go through the shared Google calendar my wife and I have and update my monthly and weekly. Then, I go through my Outlook calendar from work and put it in my TN. Works like a charm for my ADHD brain.

I really wanted to do digital planning so I bought all the accessories like the Apple Pencil and the matte screen protector... I downloaded Goodnotes and decided to tackle it. I tried to write down the month inside a box for a spread and the stupid box wouldn't move where I wanted it and I promptly quit; it took less than 30 minutes. I don't have the patience for it. I want to be able to jot a note and move on rather than tapping on the screen 30 times to get the boxes to line up. I am sure it was an operator error, but I am not interested in figuring out why. Now my iPad plays planner videos while I journal. 😆

I used to use Quicken for financial records, but I hate subscriptions. So I am a bit adrift right now as to what will gel with my brain.

I had used planners and the like all physical for years, and then I picked up a ton of allergies and had to go digital and say goodbye to pen and paper. I have since found some analog products I can use and keep a physical planner, but I still use my digital tools. But Excel, Word, and PowerPoint (for sorting out ideas) are fantastic. For more details: - Physical planner is more of my active goal and memory keeping space. It has a yearly set up/reflection space as well as monthly reflection and set up space for goals. My planner is where I store and sort out the big picture. It also has a pocket where I have separate pieces of paper for each category of what Jess would call my "future me problems." And this is where I spend at least 2 hours putting stickers each month. I also have a page where I have a list of the first bird sighting of the year for the birds that visit my house and I have converted one of the unused calendar spreads into an adventure bingo board. It also has a monthly tracker space that I use to keep a monthly view of exercise time according to the types of exercise. - I have a series of word documents for my level 10 life / wheel of life check ins, which I do every 4 months. This gives me a lot more space than my planner allows. - Tusk. Free android app that I use for heat of the moment to do items. When I couldn't use paper, this was the app that saved me. Things like take my meds, brush my teeth, laundry, and appointments. - Various apps for trackers. Google fit for my exercise journal as well as my weight keeper (my exercise apps plug into it too), DOT to track my period, and due to my allergies, I track my poops with (poopify). - Merlin is a bird app that can identifies birds from their sounds and creates a library of my bird sound bites (fun memory keeper). - Boosted is a timer app I use to record my time when I teach and those kinds of projects when Im not paid hourly so I can figure it out later. Since I have to turn in a time sheet at work now, I use excel. -I have a running word document to keep my progress steps for my crazy computer work I do.

I grew up using Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing in my computer class when I was in elementary school. Then in upper middle school, we used a website called typeracer that would let us race against other people around the world. I still have my account and I'm glad typeracer still is a thing. :)

I use Microsoft's free OneNote software as a digital planner for about 1.5 years following an unsucessful month in a traditional bullet journal. It was important that I find something that worked on my iPhone and Windows touchsreen laptop (I use a cheap pen from Amazon as a stylas). My favorite thing about OneNote it is the task tracker. If I make a task and don't check it off I can use the built in task function to find all incomplete tasks in my entire notebook. It's super helpful for not forgetting things. I use a hacked together template that I purchased from Happy Downloads for both journals. My main issues with analong planners were needing to build out each week/month as I go, carring around my planner, and how "making it pretty" took too long. Digital planning with OneNote fixes all those issues and I can hyperlink to web pages, other parts of my notebook, or insert full pds/spreasheets (underrated feature). I have a mix of handwritten and typed information (typed for tasks, grocery lists, and events listed in my weekly spreads; hand written for journaling and monthly calender). It's so easy to just add in pages as I need them or create a new section. It probably helps that all of my work and grad school notes also live in OneNote so it's just constantly open.

I love your podcast!❤❤❤

I do a hybrid digital and analog planning. Things I really need to remember start in my pen and paper planner and eventually everything ends up in it, but for appointments and stuff, it goes into my google calendar and I have a week long widget view on my home screen so I can just pull out my phone and glance when making plans on the go.

I used digital planning before I started bullet journaling. It was actually just google calendar. I very quickly learned that I don't remember anything I type. I still have google calendar now, but it is just for on the go appts. Everything gets transferred to my bujo.

Haven't tried digital planning before, but I think one of the appeals of journaling is that it ISN'T digital. I spend my day at work on a computer and my evenings playing video games with my partner, so the time I carve out in between for planner time and reading, I'm really wanting to keep non-digital. Plus, with my ADHD, by the time I open my lock screen to get to the planner, I'll have seen something shiney and completely lost my train of thought 🤣 I can't even keep digital notes because of that, I just keep a scratch pad at all of desks and take a picture of it at the end of the day. /Compromise!

The downside to digital for me is that I need to leave my page open on my desk for me to remember upcoming events/tasks/meetings. With digital, you have to open the app and you can’t just leave it open to view all day.

My digital planner is through penly and happy downloads. I tried Szmsung Note and didn't like it, but my planner file looked similar to my regular layout so I wasn't ready to scrap it all. Penly was cheap on the play store and was run by the sibling of happy dkwnloads, so watched all their videos to see how it worked, looked easy enough. I dropped around 10 pounds of weight of what I carried with the paper planner, pens, markers, highlighters, post its, etc. My degenerative disc disease was found in my neck and my arm spends a lot of time asleep because of that and possible thoracic outlet syndrome so I really had to lighten the load. I don't like how I am having to add pages so hoping they put out the 2025 planner early enough to have time to redo the links and move the pages around into the order I want them. I also have a file where it is like a bullet journal. It's primarily dot grid, lots of tabs to organize with. I use the tabs to have my contents for that tab so I can link 5o 3ach page as it gets added. I try to cluster the sections together, but not always a successful event right now. I figured learning how it works and what it can do is more important than perfect page order. With the immediately linking the new page to others, I have found it isn't as bad as I thought it would be. It isn't my bullet journal just yet, but for a version I can carry with me everywhere, it is wonderful. I am even considering buying one that links to the google calendar so I won't have to do double entry. I seem to always go back to paper because writing is faster than touch screen typing for me, but I have z stylus due to arrive today to make writing easier. I hope it holds up or my next devices need to be compatible with s pen. I can't do nearly as well, but penly will turn my writing into text so bext of both worlds. I can write fast and left the app make it legible.

I use Passion Planner Digital in Goodnotes with a 1st gen Apple Pencil for my main time planner. (Full disclosure: I've been a Passion Planner brand ambassador for about three years, but have been using the brand -- physical and digital -- for ten years.) As someone with a chronic illness, a digital planner has three distinct advantages for me: 1) Since plans can often change depending on what my physical capabilities are on a given day, a digital planner allows me to easily move things around. 2) My hands are often uncooperative, so just using my Apple Pencil (instead of washi, scissors, ruler, picking up and putting down different-coloured pens) often makes the difference between being able to plan (and make it pretty!) and not being able to plan at all. 3) This is the biggest advantage for me personally: Being able to plan in bed in the dark! If I wake up in the middle of the night and can't get back to sleep, I can pick up my iPad and do some planning without waking up my husband, the dog, and the cats. Chronic illness often means "making hay while the sun shines", and my digital planner helps me feel like a productive and useful member of society when my body does its best to make me feel otherwise. Love your podcast and your team dynamic so much. Big fan of you as individuals as well! -- @different.drummer,plans and @kj.mclean on Instagram

Notion and physical planners absolutely!

This might get a little bit long... I've used digital tools a lot and learned a few important things about my preferences. One thing I absolutely do not like is having my data stuck somewhere. I used Journal it! for quite a while, but the export feature was severely lacking and it's taken me days on end to get my stuff out of there. I've also used Goodnotes for quite a while. But a bit what Mark said, you can easily have a template for a page, but changing it? Oof! And my needs just keep changing is my experience and a digital handwriting app wasn't cutting it for me. Besides if I'm going to use a digital tool I want to have the benefits of a digital tool. And Goodnotes didn't provide that, also the same as Journal it! getting the data out was a nightmare. Heck I currently have my digital tool of choice filled with Goodnotes page images, which isn't ideal. So for me a digital tool is about archiving and retrieving data. And that is the main thing my notebooks can't provide adequately. I now use Logseq and I love its flexibility, data retrieval, bi-directional linking and the fact it works on plain text. It is an outliner, so that's helpful for bullet journaling as well. It's not perfect, but for me it has worked so well!! Especially the bi-directional linking is so helpful for retrieving information, though Logseq isn't the only app to provide it, but can highly recommend this feature in general. Obsidian would be an alternative to look at. However, all that said, I still went back to analogue. Why? Flexibility of information display. Aka, creating my own layouts and overviews. I just cannot for the life of me manage that digitally. My brain refuses. So I mainly use analogue notebooks as a fire and forget system. Aka, it is not something for archiving, it is something for using. And also for freeing up my iPad 😂 having to switch apps is annoying and yes I could use my phone in theory, but no. So yes I do double up information, but not everything that goes in my daily log needs to be digitized. I like being complete though, so mostly I still am digitizing. Effectively the paper is just an extra filter. Or at least, I should use it as such. Putting in my digital system the things for later use. Does it matter that I clipped my nails today? Like in a year? My brain is telling me yes! It does! But it probably doesn't. So I can leave that out of my digital system, but having a reminder to do it in my daily log was nice.

Another great episode! Let's start with... I'm 50+, and I have thoughts.... I'd love to do Digital Planning, I'd love the convenience of a Lightweight Device, the ability to swap and change Dates/Events digitally, I'd love to Memory-Keep with Photos as we travel in our Caravan, do a Digital Reading Tracker etc. basically all the fun things 🙂... but what stops me is 1. I don't do Subscriptions (they're Death by a Thousand Cuts for young people IMHO) 2. I'm an Android user. 3. What happens if an App that I choose to use shuts down or starts a Subscription service - then I feel like my Data will be Lost. 4.Where's the Future Digital Planner Posterity? I don't feel that it's as likely my kids/grandkids would dig into my Digital Archives as to pick up my Pen and Paper Planner to look through! So, I guess my question is... are there Digital Planners that you can Print at the end of a Year? I'd be happy to Print & Bind Once or Twice a Year, if such a thing was possible, then I could have the best of both worlds. Wow, that was a lot more to say than I'd initially thought it would be, oops, lol.

Hi, I feel very concerned by today's thème. I use a paper journal for years now and always give up when it comes to digital planning because I couldn't get everything in one place. Two weeks ago i gave it another try with Notion and I'm pretty proud of it. Now my problem is that i have everything to record twice... 😅 (I'm sorry if my grammar is not so good, I'm french) Thank you for your videos it comes with such great reflections. Thank you so much 😊

Planner guy here! I don't have a channel or anything. My planner would be far too boring to share. No decoration, no washi tape, no stickers, highlighters, stamps or anything else. Just the raw Ryder Carrol method and one fountain pen. I use digital planning at work because it has to be shareable with my manager and my team so I use the tools provided by my employer (Outlook/Teams/Excel).

I use digital planning more for capturing information to go in my notebook later. One of my favourite is the speech to text function for when I am driving and think of something I need to remember later.

I started bullet journaling in 2015 after discovering it through Pinterest in grad school. It was a creative outlet that doubled as my personal schedule and to do. I kept it up for 5-6 years but decided to pause after the birth of my child. Last year I discovered another RU-vidr (Flourish Planner) when I was considering getting an iPad to help me reduce the literal weight of a notebook in addition to having multiple schedule and organizing apps at my finger tips. I have purchased the premade planners from Flourish Planner as they have worked well as a crossover schedule planner for both my personal and work life domains. However, I just couldn’t get myself to bujo on the iPad. It is not the same! I am weird because I learned quickly how to have “good” handwriting on the iPad. But! I am currently figuring out how to reintegrate an analogue bujo into my life to function more mindfully along with my digital planner. Not there yet but figuring it out. Thank you for this podcast! 🖋️&🖊️

I have a samsung galaxy s22 ultra so I can handwrite notes on the go, but I still can't get into full digital bullet journalling, and I mainly use it for braindump

Damn Jashi, shots fired at time stamp 8:50 minutes.

Hi Planner Pals. Real notebook planners for the win. I am at the age where I want to leave a legacy and fear it will be like I never existed if I use digital coz it will disappear. 🫥

So happy to see this in my recommended. I personally use a eink tablet that runs on Android. It has a stylist, the screen has a built in screen protector that makes it like your writing on paper. The screen is actually a color eink so I still get all my favorite colors. I put homemade templates on it for the notes app on the device that are my planner pages I made in canva. And then I also made some scrapbook paper and washi tape pngs that have a clear background so I can put them wherever I want and I don't have to connect to the internet at all when I use it. So I have much the same experience I had on paper that I have on my onyx boox note air 3c. But better, because I don't have to drag out all my supplies. And it's comparable in size to my b5 notebook which is amazing. I also use it as my ereader so my reading gets followed up by immediately being able to use my reading journal. And I can create hyperlinks between the journal and the book and put my highlights from my book in super easy. I'm all digital now. I don't think I'll go back, but I will keep my fountain pens for when I need a pen.

I keep wanting to try digital planning, but if I can't get it to have the same layouts as my written planner, then it isn't going to work for me. I have a tried and true system that I have built over the last 3 years. I like my current system. But if I could get a digital planner to look like my written one, I might completely go digital. Though now I have a ton of art supplies to make my written one look pretty, and I enjoy setting up a new month. I don't know. Maybe. *sigh*

I've tried digital planning a few times. I tried using apps like todoist, but they just didn't click. I really wanted Habitica to work for me because I like the group aspect and think the gameplay aspect is cool. I briefly tried planning on OneNote, but it was before I got into more intensive planning, so it was mostly just to do lists

I’ve tried Notion time and time again but it just doesn’t compare to paper planning for me - part of the fun is setting things up with the tactile feel of stickers and markers etc. also though, before i discovered bullet journalling I loved Wunderlist - it was a basic to-do app but it was so good!

You can always use other drawing/editing apps to make your headers (like clip studio pro) and just make it like a sticker/image just as you would in physical bujos, do your lettering on a separate paper that you cut and design and paste in. Cause yeah, some of the digital bujo apps aren't good for that natural sketching/doodling ability that a lot of us like to do in notebooks/bujos. Or even, just scan in the physical drawings (phones do really good with scanning now too) and then clean up and use in whichever preferred digital app. I really like OneNote for game design and story outline/free-forming, cause you can kind of draw sketch in it (more like old Microsoft Paint), and link to other digital notebooks, and has been pretty helpful for something that comes (or used to) default in Windows computers.

Any thoughts on Rocket Book bullet journaling, since you can digitally archive and/or have it with you anywhere on your phone??

your spelling isn't that bad Jess😂. touch typing is a very valuable skill, that I actually learnt from my great grandmother on a typewriter, so I say go for it Jess. I've never tried digital planning, beyond having the notes and calender on my phone, to be able to "plan" on the go if I don't actually have my journal. I don't think I would use a digital space either, because I find that I put my phone down and walk away for a few hours (apart from that one time when it was 2 days). but also, I remember more from the physical act of writing, and I don't have that same connection with typing. I'm also trying to regain movement in my right hand after my neighbours dog bit the ever loving hell out of my arm last year, so while the writing hurts (in the areas that aren't dead now), it also helps.

All of the wonderful digital planning tools that are out there do not help me with a core problem. When I work digitally, I need to be able to type - and not with my fingers on a keyboard on the tablet/ipad itself. If I can't type, my thought process is a very different one and the digital benefits for me are out the window. In an analog planner I can organise my thoughts more visually rather than long form. Yes, I can do that in GoodNotes, but the likelihood that I will find the info when I need it is minimal.

I used Todoist & OneNote (with my Surface Pro so I could write notes easily) & I loved both. As a teacher, I now spend a lot of time in front of a computer screen so I switched to paper-planning. Being able to decorate my planner with stuff that makes me happy, made me engage more with my planner; it was too easy to avoid my digital to-do list. I have an A5-sized planner for All The Things that stays at home; I use a small notebook/planner for everyday carry with personal things like appointments/events, weekly todo & shopping lists - either A6 or Passport-size (I'm testing out both sizes) and it's been working well so far because it's super-portable. (I used a TN planner for work which worked great this semester - this I took to work with me). I still use Google Calendar for the reminders. I use OneNote to outline big projects (and later transfer specific tasks to my weekly planner as needed) b/c of the flexibility it allows. This summer I plan to try using OneNote for my long term collections (except pen swatches). I'd try Zinnia but I'm an Android & Windows person. 🤷‍♀

I have a remarkable 2. It’s like 300 I think. I love it. I’ve had it for two years now and it’s working still super duper well. For me worth every penny.

Thank you both for another great episode! I've used digital planning mostly for work, and analog planning for everything else. Like Jess, I type so much faster than I write, so especially for meeting notes or big brain dumps digital makes it so much easier. But then anything paper and pen related is also a hobby, so nothing really beats that in terms of enjoyment. As a planner boy with a planner/pen channel, I'm very much looking forward to the next episode! I remember being SO excited when I first came across Mark's channel years ago and hearing another man talking about not just planners but also stickers, stamps etc. and just really feeling seen. 💛