[SpiralOcean]

I think it's an important point not to let this article stop a person from throwing thoughts as they have them into the inbox.

The point of the article is to cull, to learn to make decisions about the stuff we have.

The thought of, I've got too much stuff to do anyway, so I'm not going to throw it into the inbox, will end up clogging up the psycie.

One point of GTD is it gives you a system to get all those nagging thoughts out of your head.

The point is when processing the inbox, and you get to an item that you have already decided not to work on, you delete the item or put it into a someday/maybe list.

In the GTD book, Allen talks about making agreements with ourselves.

If we have a project there are a couple choices to make:
• Is this something I want to work on, if so what is the next action.
• Is this something I want to work on, but now is not the time, someday maybe.
• Is this something I no longer want to work on, drop the project or delete it.

There is no shame with putting something in the someday/maybe list, and 6 months later realizing that the project no longer is something you want to do.

The problem occurs when we have a project we want to work on, but never do anything with. We have broken an agreement with ourself.