this is a love letter to my paper planner

It's fair to say that if I didn't have my planner, my life would fall apart. This year, I've been organizing my life with a Cavallini Papers & Co. pocket-sized weekly planner, which I bought for about $11 at Barnes & Noble. Every single year, Hobonichi season comes around and nearly sweeps me up with their beautifully delicate designs and promises of a more organized (if not aesthetically pleasing) life, and every year I decide the cost isn't worth it. 2027 will be no different. But I only started planning on paper again relatively recently. I used cheap weekly planners from about 2017-2019 and found them useful, but COVID killed the need for me to have a pocket-sized planner I could take with me everywhere. My phone Reminders app performed just about the same function as a to-do list, so that's what I used. Then I moved to TimeTree. Then Google Calendar. Then Proton Calender. Clearly, something just wasn't right. It wasn't until I reverted to a paper planner in 2025 that I realized…