

I never did it until Tuesday anyway, so I finally just changed the schedule. I started out by scheduling it for Sunday. The middle of the week is when my life slows down a little bit. Tips for Actually Doing Your Weekly Review But I recovered, and now I make the WR a priority. I skipped my WR for two weeks straight and was horrified at the result. When I was home with my family for Christmas 2015, I fell out of all my usual routines.

Once you build the Weekly Review (WR) habit, you will wonder how you ever maintained a to-do list before.ĭo I always do my WR? No-but when I skip it, I feel the pain. In my opinion, if you’re not doing the Weekly Review, you’re not doing GTD. The part that thwarts even GTD black belts is the Weekly Review. Once a week, you review everything you’ve written down. Write it down immediately-unless it can be done in less than two minutes. When you think of something you need to do, you capture it. It’s based on three principles: ubiquitous capture, the two-minute rule, and the Weekly Review. GTD is a productivity methodology popularized by David Allen in his book of the same name. I like to have an elevator pitch ready for my life-changers, so of course I have one for Getting Things Done (GTD). In the meantime, I’ve had the draft of this post ready to go for a while, so it’s also time to press “publish.” The concept of applying GTD principles to specific apps remains relevant even if my specific app will soon be no more. I always had a second-choice app in mind, so it’s time to make the move. I used Sunrise, too, and I ran away as soon as Microsoft announced its sunset (pun intended), so I am doing the same with Wunderlist. I have to face the reality that my beloved, life-changing task management app will be shut down in the next few months. The name and current bare-bones functionality leave much to be desired. But last week, MS and WL announced the preview of the new app, which is called To-Do. Nothing much had changed since then besides an Outlook integration. Microsoft acquired Wunderlist (WL) in late 2015. A sad time has come, dear readers: I have to find a new app for my to-do list.
