Best Laid Plans Can AI Help You Plan Your Life? A Real-Life Experiment with Emilie Schario EP 299
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Apr 20, 2026 
Emilie Schario, VP of engineering at Kilocode and mother of three who applies AI agents to family planning. She shares her hybrid paper-plus-digital planning, morning AI briefings, and how she builds simple agents like “Chad” to summarize school emails and manage calendars. Practical setup tips and a start-small approach make AI accessible for everyday life.
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Hybrid Systems Let Families Share While Staying Focused
- Keep digital systems as source-of-truth but use paper for quick daily reference.
- Emilie stores calendars and tasks digitally for multiplayer access, then writes a daily 30-minute-block view on paper to avoid interruptions.
Work From One Paper Task At A Time
- Limit your daily paper to a single active to-do to remove decision friction.
- Emilie writes 30-minute calendar blocks and keeps one unchecked task on paper while the rest live in Todoist filtered for context.
Keep Goals In Markdown For Agent Feedback
- Store goals in machine-readable text so agents can analyze context.
- Emilie keeps yearly goals as markdown files so her AI agent can cross-check calendars and forecast feasibility (e.g., gym visits vs travel schedule).