I am curious now about how you people are using your Someday-Maybe lists.
My Someday/Maybe lists are a place to put actionable or someday-actionable things that I’m not going to take action on soon. They tend to pick up a fair bit of clutter that doesn’t fit the “actionable or someday-actionable” description, and I try to get that clutter out of them when I review them, though my standards aren’t as strict as they are for my actual active projects and actions.
Isn't that the point - it should be processed at the Weekly Review? If not what else does get reviewed?
During the Someday/Maybe part of my weekly review
- I always review the Weekly Someday/Maybe list.
- If it’s been a month or more since I reviewed the Monthly Someday/Maybe list, I’ll review it, and also the weekly list.
- If it’s been three months or more since I reviewed the Quarterly Someday/Maybe list, I’ll review it, and also the monthly list and the weekly list.
And so on. I don't actually have a Quarterly Someday/Maybe list right now--Weekly, Monthly, and Annual gives me plenty of choice for review frequency. If things get messier, I may add one.
This practice reflects the fact that I don’t keep most of my Someday/Maybe material in OmniFocus. If I did, I would have a bunch of projects with their default review frequency set to monthly or three-monthly or quarterly. That would have a somewhat different effect—there would never be a time when I review absolutely everything, unless I go out of my way to do so. But most of my OmniFocus projects are active or soon active, so I mostly just use the default weekly review frequency.
When you ask “what else does get reviewed” are you asking what, overall, gets reviewed in the weekly review? I want to ask before I describe a bunch of stuff that you weren’t even asking.
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