Hana Tanaka is writing a dissertation on urban sociology. The work is sprawling: interviews, field notes, readings, drafts, and the constant need to find the thing she wrote down three months ago.
The researcher who indexes her thinking.
PhD Candidate
“Every chapter has a page number. Every page is findable.”
IN THE PAGES
How the planner actually looks in use.
Sunday planning, one page at a time.
The weekly spread — priorities before hours.
Thinking on paper, in the margins.
Numbered notes, indexed and findable.
Finding the thread again, months later.
Roles and goals in a single spread.
Their system
Three habits that hold it together.
01
Sunday reset
Ten minutes to close the week, name what mattered, and carry the rest forward.
02
Notes with an address
Every idea lands on a numbered page and gets logged in the index.
03
Three that count
The week starts with three outcomes that define what done looks like.
Start your own
Your week, led on purpose.
Every story starts the same way — one page, one week, one decision about what matters. Find the planner that fits how you think.
