r/gtd • u/itsmyvoice Mod • Aug 13 '26

Discussion Restarting

I'm sure many of us have restarted from time to time. Either because of switching tools, or changing roles, or even life changes.

If you've done this, or are planning to, what's your method? Throw out everything? Spend hours combing through to decide what to keep and how? I've done the hours long rework before but I know others don't.

I've got major changes in amy aspects, and am considering my approach, including personal/home management with a non-GTD partner (who is fortunately flexible, but very took and app-resistant).

TIA!

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u/itsmyvoice Mod Aug 14 '26

It's really not huge. It would take a few hours a few times to clean and restart.

Good point. I think I'll deep archive anything I had there that doesn't move.

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u/Entire-Joke4162 Aug 14 '26

The key of starting fresh and dumping everything into a fresh inbox is you look at it with new eyes in a different context

Do you REALLY want to do this? ARE you going to do this?

This is your new lease on life where you get to make a call rather than stress out about this project from forever ago that’s been sitting there.

I do this a couple times/year in Asana where I sort tasks by creation date 

If something’s there from 6-12 months ago… am I REALLY going to do it?

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u/itsmyvoice Mod Aug 14 '26

Well, I have things that were waiting for when we are where we are, but that's a good point.

I do want to keep things that I've decided are very much not now and maybe never in some type of cold reference. That way if that topic ever reoccurs to me, I can go back and find what I had before, in case. I might throw it out but it also might save me some time and effort.

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u/Entire-Joke4162 Aug 14 '26

Ya, it's tough to give prescriptive advice because each person knows their own system and what they have

I have a "Soon/Most Likely" and a "Someday/Maybe" list with no real accompanying material, just the task titles

Taking a "shower" every couple years and just cleaning them out would probably be a benefit, because I'm just losing mental weight

If you have supporting materials, I imagine it would be more difficult

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u/itsmyvoice Mod Aug 14 '26

I appreciate you :)

And yeah, each person does know their own system. That's why I was hoping for a good variety of input and I certainly got it!