About Triaging

Triaging clears collection points and gets actionable items into your task list as quickly as possible. The steps are: Toss junk. Quick communication (< 2 minutes). Quickly enter everything in your task list. File resource items for later. Process “hot”...

What Unprocessed Means

“Unprocessed” means you haven’t 1) decided the next step, 2) decided (roughly) when you will do it, OR 3) put it in its home.

What Unprocessed Means

Unprocessed tasks need more processing (deciding and deferring) so they will show up properly in your lists. Until they are fully processed, they appear in your Unprocessed Tasks list.

Mark Tasks as Completed

How to mark a completed task. (Caution: Project + next steps need to be re-processed, not marked off.)

Deferring Recap

Here is a quick processing summary—how processing (actually deferring) works for your task manager.