[whpalmer4]

Apparently we got different things from David Allen's book. I see the Inbox as a big hopper that incoming ideas, tasks, information, what have you get dumped in for guaranteed input into the trusted system. At some point in the not too distant future, the Inbox is iteratively processed, with each item either being discarded, immediately done (if doing so would take less than a small number of minutes), or filed for future action. Depending on your environment and collection habits, that Inbox processing might have to happen several times a day, or maybe just a few times a week. I think you'd be hard-pressed to point me to a paragraph where DA says you need to process each item as you put it in your Inbox!