(1) capture what has our attention; (2) clarify what each item means and what to do about it; (3) organize the results, which presents the options we… - David Allen

Ask any psychologist how much of a sense of past and future that part of your psyche has, the part that was storing the list that you dumped: zero. It's all present tense in there. ...[A]s soon as you tell yourself that you should do something, if you file it... in your short-term memory... part of you... thinks that you should be doing it all the time. ...[Y]ou've created instant and automatic stress and failure ...

sort of planning activity: (1) those that still have your attention even after you’ve determined their next actions, and (2) those about which potentially

I am rather like a mosquito in a nudist camp; I know what I want to do, but I don’t know where to begin.