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How to keep a consistent weekly review
Chris Bowler | Feb 7 2008
Greetings ninjas I have spent the last year trying the various ideas\themes that Mr. Allen listed in his book. And with the help of great resources like 43Folders, a lot of those ideas have helped me stay organized, accomplish goals and have reduced my overall stress. But there is one GTD concept I have struggled with consistently. And that is keeping a regular weekly review. And no matter what kind of system (paper or electronic etc), no matter how efficient that system, without a regular weekly review, the system quickly loses it usefulness. Then I stop trusting the system, my stress rises, and I start figuring out how to make a better system (another problem all of it's own). It seems pretty obvious to me when I remove myself from the flurry of incoming tasks and information - if I could consistently keep a weekly review, my system would enable me to reach ninja levels of productivity. Does anyone else struggle with the review? And does anyone have some tips and tricks to help a person stick to doing a weekly review? 6 Comments
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 Automate Your Weekly Review with iCalSubmitted by Todd V on February 8, 2008 - 8:42pm.
For my setup I have a script that audibly walks me through David Allen's weekly review and I use iCal to automate it every week. With iCal you can set an alarm to "open file" and then navigate to the item you want that event to open when the time arrives. So I just navigate to this Weekly Review script, set it to happen once a week (at 9am for me), and I'm regularly reminded when I need to complete my weekly review. It also scores me on how consistently I'm doing my weekly reviews, so there is an added incentive for me to improve my score. » POSTED IN:
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