Only actionable items go to a calendar or a tickler.
@TesTeq, I must admit I only scanned this thread. This statement really hit me and it's completely different than how my system is setup.
Calendar
I think of the calendar as the hard landscape of my day. I put appointments, holidays, birthdays, information that I want to see that particular day. I have things like automatic payments on my calendar that are not actionable but I want to see them. It really is the landscape, or maybe equipment, more than simply actionable items.
Tickler
I have used tickler in a variety of ways to handle non-actionable items. I've put reference material for that particular day into tickler. I've put mind sweep lists (cherry picked of actionable items crossed off and processed) in order to incubate them. They were just thoughts and I thought seeing them another day would keep me from overloading my system. Many are simply tossed when they pop up. I've put cards from friends & family into tickler so I would get to enjoy them again in the future, or to remember to thank them a bit in the future.
Looking at all of this, many of these non-actionable items in both of these areas are potentially actionable/useful on that day.
Thanks for getting me thinking today.
Clayton
Pat Inbox, inventor of the inbox, has never received royalties for her ingenuity, but the Earl of Sandwich gave her a free place to live from all of his profits (although he never got a pence for hot dogs). - probably from the journal of Woody Allen