Weekly Review Checklist

"If you're not doing the weekly review, you're not doing GTD!" Ricky's RAM Dump: http://www.rickyspears.com/blog

"It's called a weekly review, not a weakly review!"

"Seven days without a review makes one weak!"

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Notes from David Allen's book "Ready for Anything".

The first challenge is to implement these models, and the second is to keep them active and functional. This guide provides the master key to achieving a consistently more relaxed and productive style of life and work. This process, whenever it's done, facilitates executive command-center thinking and confidence, and it's most effective when it's practiced every seven days.

Charles' action items have been added as checklist items

• Gather all scraps of paper, business cards, receipts, and miscellaneous paper. Put into your in-basket to process.
• [ ] Empty out backpack. Put relevant items into intray.
• [ ] Remove loose stuff from desk
• [ ] Empty wallet of receipts and paper
• [ ] Purge physical intray
• [ ] Empty email inbox creating NAs as required

• Review any journal/notes types of entries, meeting notes, and miscellaneous notes scribbled on notebook paper. Decide and enter action items, projects, waiting-fors, etc., as appropriate.
• [ ] Review my Journal file (C-c j)
• [ ] Review my Office Journal file (linked from Journal File)

• Put in writing (in appropriate categories) any new projects, action items, waiting-fors, someday/maybes, etc., not yet captured.
• [ ] Set a timer for 5 minutes and do brainstorming or mind-mapping

• Mark off completed actions. Review for reminders of further action steps to record.

• Record appropriate actions for any needed follow-up. Check off received ones.
• [ ] Review TODO items in Waiting State C-c a T W <tab>

• Evaluate status of projects, goals and outcomes, one by one, ensuring at least one current action item on each. Browse through work-in-progress support material to trigger new actions, completions, waiting-fors, etc.
• [ ] Review Project List (C-c a P)
• [ ] Review contents of newgtd.org file (C-c g)

• Review past calendar in detail for remaining action items, reference data, etc., and transfer into the active system.
• [ ] Review Logged items for last week (C-c a a l left-arrow)
• [ ] Read newgtd.org_archive file

• Review upcoming calendar events-long and short term. Capture actions triggered.
• [ ] Review upcoming month (C-c a a M)
• [ ] Review family calendar on refrigerator

• Use as a trigger for any new actions.
• Review Someday/Maybe List
• Review for any projects that may now have become active, and transfer to projects list. Delete items no longer of interest.
• [ ] Review my Someday/Maybe list
• [ ] Write a short summary of the week (C-c r a)

• Any new, wonderful, harebrained, creative, thought-provoking, risk-taking ideas to add into your system???
• [ ] Capture Todo items (C-c r t) or Someday (C-c r s)

• [ ] Start Quicken and get my finances up to date
• [ ] Backup GTD File
• england
• finances
• http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl
• as far as I can tell