How do I practice weekly review gtd?

The most direct way to practice weekly review gtd is through a focused exercise: Schedule a 15-minute review session sometime in the next 48 hours. When the time comes: open every capture inbox you use (notes app, voice memos, email drafts, bookmarks, Slack saved items). For each item, make one of four decisions — act on it now, archive it somewhere retrievable, develop it into a longer note, or delete it. Don't deliberate. Spend no more than 30 seconds per item. When you're done, count how many captures you'd completely forgotten about. That number is the size of the gap this lesson addresses.

Common pitfall: Capturing religiously but never reviewing — building a pristine collection of raw material that never gets processed into anything. The failure is invisible because the capture habit feels productive. You're 'getting things down.' But getting things down without ever picking them back up is storage, not thinking. The graveyard grows, the anxiety compounds, and eventually the capture habit itself dies because the system stopped earning your trust.

This practice connects to Phase 1 (Perception and Externalization) — building it as a repeatable habit compounds over time.