No matter how consistent the system is, if it is not current (i.e. completely up to date with all items in a category) it still can\u2019t be trusted in a way that relieves the psyche of the job of remembering and sorting. You\u2019ll look at a list and some part of you knows it\u2019s not the whole list, so (a) you won\u2019t totally trust your choices and (b) you\u2019ll still try to use your head to keep track. And if your brain still has that job, instead of trusting your lists, you won\u2019t be motivated to keep your external system going (it will be too much work for the value received.) You\u2019ll feel like it\u2019s hard work to keep the list and will resist looking at it anyway because you\u2019ll know it\u2019s only partial and it will remind you that you\u2019re \u201cbehind.\u201d – David Allen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
No matter how consistent the system is, if it is not current (i.e. completely up to date with all items in a category) it still can\u2019t be trusted in a way that relieves the psyche of the job of remembering and sorting. You\u2019ll look at a list and some part of you knows it\u2019s not … <\/p>\n