🔄 The GTD Weekly Review
Get current and clear with a weekly review.
Updated 2026-07-14
In David Allen's Getting Things Done, the weekly review is the keystone habit: the thing that keeps the whole system trustworthy. You empty your inboxes, review your projects and calendar, and decide what matters next. It's also the habit people skip most, because it's easy to defer; a scheduled, body-doubled session is how it actually happens. Work the checklist below.
The list
- Empty your inboxes: email, notes, paper, capture app
- Brain-dump anything still nagging from the past week
- Review your calendar: last week and the next two weeks
- Update your project list: each one needs a next action
- Check your 'waiting for' list and chase anything stalled
- Skim your someday/maybe list for anything to activate
- ⭐ Top priority for the coming week
- ⭐ Second priority
- ⭐ Third priority
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