How I’m Using a Paper Planner + Digital Planner together!
Let me start by being REAL clear about something: I still love my paper planner!
There’s something about the act of writing things down, flipping through the pages, and crossing things off that will always be a part of how I plan.
But here’s how digital planning has shifted things for me: even though I still use my S.O.S. Planner daily, it’s my S.O.S. Digital Planning System that does most of the heavy lifting behind the scenes.
It’s actually the best of both worlds!!
Here’s How I Use Them Together:
1. Asana is where everything lives.
I now consider Asana the place where everything I need to do finds a home. Throughout the week, as things come up – reminders, tasks, notes – I drop them straight into the appropriate board or project inside my digital planning system. Asana is my “brain dump” space, but also where everything lives long-term.
2. Do my regular weekly planning in my paper planner
Each Sunday, I use my paper planner to map out the big picture view of our week – appointments, work blocks, school events, family activities. This gives me the visual overview of the week that I really can’t live without.
3. Assign due dates to all my tasks for the week inside Asana
Next, I go through my Asana boards and choose which tasks I want to tackle this week. I assign due dates to each task so that it shows up in my “My Tasks” tab, and nothing falls through the cracks.
(The main boards I go through when I do this are: This Week, Project Hub, and my AW Workspace. Everything from Routines and Cleaning Schedule already auto populate into my task list on the right day because I’ve set them up as repeating tasks!)
4. Use the “My Tasks” tab to sort by priority
This is the magic: Asana’s “My Tasks” view pulls everything – from EVERY project – into one place, organized by due date! I go through it and put my tasks for the day AND week in order of priority.
5. Copy over each day’s tasks into my paper planner
Every morning, I look at my Asana list and handwrite the tasks for the day into my paper planner (I’m using the Hourly Daily Detail layout right now) around the schedule I’ve already blocked out. It helps me stay focused without having to think about what’s next!
Why This Combo Works So Well:
- I still get to cross things off with a pen (yes please!).
- I have a clear home for everything – even the random tasks I think of on-the-go.
- I’m not rewriting or losing track of recurring tasks anymore.
- My digital system is the “brain,” and my paper planner is the “daily plan”!
If you’ve been hesitant to go digital because you still love your paper planner, I just want you to know – you don’t have to choose. This digital planning system can work right alongside whatever planner you already love – it just makes it even better!
Have you ever considered using BOTH a digital + paper planning system? I’d love to hear your experience in the comments of this post!
In this together, Kayse
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Kayse Pratt serves Christian women as a writer + designer, creating home + life management resources that help those women plan their days around what matters most. She’s created the most unique planner on the market, helped over 400 women create custom home management plans, and works with hundreds of women each month inside her membership, teaching them how to plan their days around what matters most. When she’s not designing printables or writing essays, you’ll find Kayse homeschooling her kids, reading a cheesy novel with a giant cup of tea in hand, or watching an old show from the 90’s with her husband, who is her very best friend.