Habits, health, money and time. How to actually keep up with your whole life.
You keep re-buying the planner and abandoning it by February. It isn't willpower — your life is split across eight apps that can't see each other. Here's the research, and the honest argument for keeping it all in one place.
I built an elaborate spreadsheet to run my whole life, with a tab for everything. It worked until one busy week broke it. Here is why the perfect spreadsheet failed and what I use now.
I bought a beautiful planner nearly every January and gave up by February. The paper was never the problem. A planner cannot do math, remember, or connect the parts of a life, and that is what I actually needed.
For 30 days I logged habits, health, money and mood in one place. The habits were not the revelation. The connections between them were, like the weeks I slept badly costing me the most money.