David Allen, the author of one of my favorite productivity books Getting Things Done, calls the Weekly Review a key to his entire system of organization and life management. I’ll talk about the whole GTD process in several future posts, but for now, I’d like to emphasize my Daily Action approach to GTD. 

To put it very simply, you do a scaled- down version of the GTD Weekly Review every day.  Like my running daily program, where I have daily runs with one long run on Saturday, I have a daily GTD review, where I review my life management system of projects and next actions, and then perform a full-scale GTD Weekly Review once a week.  The same rules apply about skip days, where if you forget one day or can’t do a review due to extreme circumstances, it is no big deal because you do these every day.

If you do GTD, try doing daily mini-reviews and see if it makes a difference and helps to keep your system more up-to-date and gives you more of a sense of control.