Can You Deal With System Bloat?
March 26 by Craig Childs | Work
Wayne Pepper at David Allen Co. defines system bloat as simply your GTD inbox getting too full. When you’re list of to-dos becomes so large that you cringe to look at it, let alone knock a few items off.
The simple solution, says Pepper, is to prioritize; or re-evaluate your priorities. If possible, move as many items as you can from your inbox to your someday maybe list. Or delete them.
Checking through your someday maybe list during your Weekly Review helps to prevent that list from getting out of hand.
If your Someday Maybe list isn’t reviewed once a week during Weekly Review, then it’s turning into a Someday Never, and you’ll lack the confidence that you can safely plant something there and re-engage with it when the time is right.
System Bloat – [TheDavidAllenCo]
Craig,
It’s ironic that you highlighted system bloat just now. I decided to prune Google Reader from 140+ feeds down to 84. What good are tons of information sources, if I’m not really reading any of them?
Take care,
Andrew
Prioritize? What’s the point?
If you’re going to do it; grand, add it to your to do list. If you’re not going to do it then either delegate it or bin it. If you prioritize all your saying is, “this stuff isn’t important”, so you might as well delete it now, make your to do list a manageable length again and go get yourself a latte.
Andrew has the right idea; don’t prioritize – prune!
Regards
David