current planner stack – aug 2025

Food is grooving along as best is possible without CSA and work obligations have felt like a bigger piece of my plate and as life goes, planners go. Quickish rundown of my current planner stack below.

Everyday/Everything Carry

My Hobonichi A6 Avec, Field Notes x 2, black leather unbranded cover

This stack is doing all the heavy lifting. It holds daily tasks, appointments, an index of major events, light memory keeping, and notes on medical appointments for the entire family. I separate Field Notes notebooks for my work streams that require more space. I have had this setup for years and it is as close to planner peace that I have ever achieved but more on that in a bit.

Meal Planner

Hobonichi Weeks + Levenger Index Cards

I am going through a bit of a lull with meal planning right now at a time that I should probably putting a bit more muscle into it, but c’est la vie. This weekly format has proved perfect whether I am power planning through busy canning season or simply recording a single fabulous meal of the week. We have much of the latter here recently. I use index cards during recipe development and before I memorialize final versions in the back pages of my Weeks.

Downtime Journal

Filofax Domino Pocket in purple with various non-filofax inserts

This little guy is still in its formative stages. I started this downtime journal practice in a Field Notes this year cause I just have those around and by April/May was feeling pretty constrained. Knitting, reading and all the other things I do in my downtime come with lots of stuff – pictures of progress, yarn bits, and misc things like tickets that just kept falling out or requiring adhesive. Hoping that this new format and a handy dandy hole punch will give me a more uniform format for all those baubles and so far I am loving the size.

Loving it soooo much that I am giving some serious consideration to adopting this format for my everyday planning and figuring out if I can devise some inserts if my own that will work for my meal planning. Not quite ready to let go of my Japanese planners but this is a tempting path and I am spending more energy than I care to admit thinking through and sketching out a path.