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What Does Your Review Schedule Look Like?

I'm having a hard time figuring out and staying committed to what-all needs to be reviewed and when, and that's starting to make my next actions list sag and bloat up. I'm trying to come up with a reasonable schedule I can stick with for a while.

I'd like to see what some folks' current schedule of weekly and monthly(and beyond) list/context/project/etc. reviews looks like, including reviews that may only tangentially be related to core GTD practice. What are all of the personal check-ins you do?

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Find all of your Ins

One of the problems that I have been dealing with is the large number of Ins that I have. I have things scattered all over the place, so it is often impossible to have everything in front of me to process once a week.

I have Ins:

  • in 3 physical offices - Main, @ Client, and Home
  • email inbox
  • Moleskine notebook
  • voicemail
  • stuff collected in Yojimbo
  • stuff collected in MentalCase
  • My kitchen counter
  • My car
  • My briefcase

I do my Weekly Review on Firday afternoon in the same office every time, so before I leave my @ Client office for the last time in the week, I make sure the Inbox there is empty, even if I have to take a bunch of stuff with me. I also collect everything at my home office Thursday morning. I try to spend Thrusday afternoon at my main office Getting to Zero as much as possible. Then on Friday, I only have to collect what has happened since Thursday afternoon, process everything and then review.

They key, no matter how many Ins you have, is to make sure everything gets collected at least once a week. You can't do a real review if there is anything unaccounted for.

 
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