Last month I wrote about using an inbox or series of inboxes to collect all those random "I need to remember" thoughts.  In that post I glossed over the need to regularly process those inboxes and move the items from your inbox(es) to your to do lists.  However, if you don't conduct a weekly review of your inbox and task list your system will fail.  You need to trust that when you put a note about a task in an inbox that you will come back to it later and do something about it.  David Allen recommends that each week you go through the items in your inboxes, add them to your task lists and review the task lists to remove unimportant items and make choices on what you will focus on completing for the next week.  He goes on to say, "There is no system, formula, software, or set of lists, no matter how completely filled out, that can tie together the almost infinite number of variables that go into "getting our act together."  The only thing that makes it work is a consistent intervention of you."