Planner or track as you go?

I've done both. I only pre-log under these conditions:
a) I am going out
b) need to make something fit and work the rest of my day around it
c) am going to be busy or lazy the next day and just want to plan things ahead of time
d) already know that the next day I'm going to want x item (e.g. I know today I want burgers because I made burgers last night)
e) planning my dinner on the way home that same day.

Usually when I plan, it's half a day only of planning. I much prefer to eat "spontaneously" because.... that's how life is. I never sat down the night before and chose/planned out what I was gonna eat the entire day. For me, tracking is about pushing it as far into the background of my life as possible so that it's just something that I do without having to think much about it or put much effort into. I don't plan on pre-logging for life, so I don't utilize this method now. I do not usually eat the same thing every day. When I wake up I will go to the fridge and grab food, log it as the default weight, and then I will grab reasonable portions of everything (logging helped me learn what reasonable means) and weigh them all, then update the weight in my app. Then eat. My calories will range between 400-700 for a meal this way, and I naturally developed an eating pattern that I much prefer (eating more in the evening). Pre-logging and being too regimented made me feel uneasy and hangry, partially because I wasn't eating enough in the evening and I was eating too much for breakfast and lunch.