[curt.clifton]

Sandy,

When you say "I don't think it's going to work for me to have to clean up things every time I make a change", it makes me think that you are trying to do work in the inbox, rather than just using it as a capture location. In GTD, the inbox is where things go until you do your daily (or more frequent) processing. After you've processed an item it should leave the inbox, hopefully never to return. Having the clean-up command to move the processed items out of the inbox is actually quite handy once you get used to it.

Also in GTD, it is typical to just do "two-minute" tasks when processing the inbox. I tend to just delete those tasks from the inbox, rather the additional time to categorize them and check them off.