Is Australia that island off the coast of New Zealand? 
I cannot confirm nor deny … from my perspective, it’s best to keep the exact location of Australia unknown
Having said that, New Zealand has the best rugby team on this planet … it pains me to say that 
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That is an interesting point of view, as the Review is the essential heart of GTD, and GTD would probably not really work, if you don’t take the time to keep your system up to date, and to be confident, that your system is up to date!
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Absolutely! As I’ve noted several times in other threads, I calendar my weekly review for Friday morning of each week. The point I’m making above is that this is not the norm for most people. Most people do not do a weekly review and therefore, adding such a feature to a mass market todo list like Reminders probably would not make a lot of sense to Apple. I wish they would add it but I’m not holding my breath. 
FYI, NotePlan offers its own version of Review in its sidebar and has just added a Weekly view, as well. (OmniFocus probably shouldn’t feel threatened, but still. )
Now stop it already! I’m doing my best to resist the temptation to give NotePlan another spin!
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To create reviews for both my private and work projects in Things3, I wrote a Python script (that makes use of the things.py library).
Here you can find it, including usage instruction:
Happy to help!
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Maybe I’m an idiot, but I couldn’t make this work for me. If I typed in python review.py areaName, I got an error about not using a tag name. If I typed in python review.py tagName, I got an error about not using an area name.
Edit: What if I want to do this without using tags?
How does your config file look like?
I created an issue in Github and will try to reproduce based on the context I have.
Thanks! I just posted over there. It’s possible I just didn’t understand the instructions. I’m just curious what the end result looks like.
Thanks for popping this up to the top again.
Gives me a chance to expound on my new review system now that I’ve moved out of Omnifocus and into Obsidian for all task and project management.
I am using the Obsidian Plug-in Tasks to manage my tasks. I have templates for ordinary one off projects and recurring projects. My active project folder in Obsidian has a note for every project. If the project is big (AnimalTrakker programming for example) It may warrant its own folder with subfolders or more documents related to the project. In general though I get by with one note per project. All project notes have a tag in the YAML of either project/active, project/recurring, project/hold or project/archive. They also have a tag of the area of focus that each project relates to. If it relates to more than one AOF then there will be 2 tags in the YAML like AOF/Farm_Mgmt or AOF/Health_and_Fitness or AOF/Household_Mgmt
My tasks all have a tag for the context I can do them in. So tasks will have a tag like #Context/Internet or #Context/OutsideByMyself or #Context/AnimalTrakker
I have 3 dashboard type notes:
The first one _GTD_Dashboard has blocks for each context tag like this
Phone
not done
(starts before tomorrow)
tag includes Phone
short mode
The second dashboard is _GTD_Project_List which has sections for each class of projects for my active, recurring and hold projects (the ones I need to review)
Current Projects
TABLE startdate as "Start Date"
FROM #project/active
where endate = null
SORT file.name ASC
My last dashboard note has active projects grouped by AOF
Health and Fitness
TABLE startdate as "Date"
FROM (#project/active OR #project/recurring) AND #AOF/Health_and_Fitness
where endate = null
SORT file.name ASC
Personal Growth
TABLE startdate as "Date"
FROM (#project/active OR #project/recurring) AND #AOF/Personal_Growth
where endate = null
SORT file.name ASC
My weekly review first consists of looking at my task or next action dashboard and documenting anything that got done that I hadn’t yet checked off.
Then I pull up the project dashboard and quickly pull up each project note and check its status. Do I need to add anything? Has anything changed? Is this still a project I need to do? Should it be moved to on-hold for this coming week? Is it done and do I need to file it as an archived project? I’m still working on hiding the projects that haven’t started yet, especially the ones that are recurring ones. Right now they show up in this list even if they cannot be started yet. It’s a matter of editing my dataview query to eliminate things that are not started but it’s working ok and I haven’t had time to play with the query to fine tune it.
Next I look at the projects by AOF to do a sanity check on keeping up with what I want to in all areas.
I’m still tuning so I don’t review things more often than needed but also so nothing falls through the cracks but I’m liking how it’s all coming together so far.
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You are not alone. I once had weekly reviews scheduled but I was usually to busy to do it.
I’ve given up at this point as between work and personal projects, I’m alway going to be behind.
If the reminder and process for weekly reviews is automated by the task manager app, there is a small chance that I’ll do the review. If not, there is zero chance that I’ll do it
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This is why the Weekly Review is THE most important part of GTD. it’s the way that once a week you understand exactly where you are with your committments.
It’s how I push less important things into a backlog context so that I have a managable workload, and how I can easily provide my boss a list of backlog items that I have no chance of getting to so that she’s aware.
It’s not easy when you’re the busiest, but that’s when you need it most.
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I used Omnifocus for years and then moved to Apple Reminders and now I am using Things 3. I still do a weekly review. My review process is simple: I look at my Inbox, and then I go through each Area and Project to see if something needs to due date added or if I can drop it entirely. It is simple but effective enough. I also have a recurring task to remind myself to do the review every Sunday.
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I use Things 3 also. I like the idea of custom review periods in Omnifocus. I have several dozen projects. I made a Shortcut to create review tasks for each with links to the project. I have these review tasks tucked out of the way in a project “project review”. Review tasks are tagged “review”. I then manually set each to recurring with a custom review period - some weekly, some 2 weeks, some monthly or longer. It takes ~10 minutes to set up.
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