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Quote from Making it all work:

Originally Posted by Making it Work p40

Your commitments will be tracked and managed somewhere - and if they're not funneled into a system, they'll take root in your psyche.

But the psyche is truly handicaped in its ability to remember, to remind, and to automatically think and decide. If your mind had the capabilities that most people seem to believe it has, based on their trust of it instead of an external system, it would only remind you of things you needed to do, when you could actually do something about them.

The question arises: at what point is more energy spent putting something into the system than actually doing it.

This is where the 2 minute rule comes in when processing the inbox. If you can do it within 2 minutes do it now. If you can't do it within that time period, then it should take around 2 minutes to get the item into your system to do it later.