I just finished a "weekly review"...a long overdue weekly review. I time-box my weekly reviews to two hours because otherwise I would be backlog swimming until dawn. I have a card (page) template in Notion:
- [ ] Time-block this time
Paper inbox: 30min
- [ ] Open unopened mail
- [ ] Capture any next actions
- [ ] Throw away what can be thrown away
- [ ] File what needs to be filed
Email inboxes: 30min
- [ ] Inbox Zero [I use this technique]
- [ ] Declare day of jubilee on newsletters
- [ ] Get anything with next action onto the board
- [ ] Grind through the rest
- [ ] Close email at 30 min
Review boards: 60min
- [ ] Daniel Miller Inbox -- move all cards to appropriate place
- [ ] Groom the Backlog on Daniel Miller
- [ ] Prioritize Backlog on Daniel Miller
- [ ] Queue 14 tasks for this week in Up Next
- [ ] Process Projects boards
Today I got to "Groom the Backlog". "Prioritize Backlog" is incredibly aspirational. I should remove that one. I'm going to do that right now. Done.
(There are 233 items still in the "backlog" after tonight's almost hour of grooming. I started with the oldest items this time, many of which were still very relevant.)
(I should have taken note of how many there were at the start. Somewhere between 250-299.)
I'm much worse about my paper inbox. I got through "Open unopened mail", although I did take care of a couple of those things in real time instead of just throwing them into that massive backlog. 😂
(There are 233 items still in the "backlog" after tonight's almost hour of grooming. I started with the oldest items this time, many of which were still very relevant.)
(I should have taken note of how many there were at the start. Somewhere between 250-299.)
I'm much worse about my paper inbox. I got through "Open unopened mail", although I did take care of a couple of those things in real time instead of just throwing them into that massive backlog. 😂
