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I'm trying to write the phrase, "I guess I'll unpack tomorrow." And I can't
decide between だろう or かな for the "I guess"

Here's what I got.

明日、荷解きするだろう。

明日、荷解きしようかな。

I'm leaning toward the latter, but I'm not terribly sure.
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meaning word-choice usage
でしょう/だろう vs しようかな for "I guess I'll..."
「明日、荷解きするだろう」 is more like "It looks like I'll be unpacking tomorrow". This
sounds like you have no direct control over what you're doing tomorow. If you
had a disease that causes you to lose your memory every night, wrote down in
your journal "Unpack the case" to tomorrow's self, and said "(Okay, this way,)
I guess I'll unpack it tomorrow", then this could be 荷解きするだろう. Otherwise, you
almost never have to say something like this referring to yourself.

「明日、荷解きしようかな」 is a natural sentence, but this sounds like the chance of doing
荷解き tomorrow is 60% or so (かな is like "..., maybe?"). If you're relatively
certain about the plan, just saying 荷解きしよう may be enough.
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