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created: 2024-02-21 17:49
updated: 2024-03-12 13:49
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## Periodic reviews

Periodic reviews ac as a way of _checkpoint_ in which we review how life and work is going and try to reset our minds to allow us to continue to work. 

This should be forgiving, doesn't bad happens if we miss a review day.

The purpose of a review vary: depending how often is done, the scope of it increase or reduce, as well as it's certainty.
## Weekly

The purpose of a weekly review is to provide a _reset point_: empty inboxes, glow up some notes and discard what's not relevant.

This are some actions to do on a weekly review:

- **Clear my email inbox**
	- Review unread emails.
	- Unsubscribe from spam emails.
	- Move wanted subscriptions to read-later email.
- **Check my calendar**
	- Upcoming events to attend this week.
	- Following weeks events that I need to prepare to.
- **Clear frequent folders**
	- Downloads
	- Documents
	- Drive
- **Clear my notes inbox**
	- Batch process them all at once, making quick, intuitive decisions about which of the PARA folders each note might be relevant to. Don't think to hard about it.
	- Don't process or summarize them, this is taxing, is better to do when I work on a specific topic and I need the note.
- **Choose my tasks for the week**
	- Clear the inbox of the task manager.
	- Choose the tasks I want/need to do this week.
	- This should be the last step, so we have the information gathered in the previous ones in consideration.

## Monthly

Since the scope of this review is a little more broad, it's recommended to review how are you going in a more general way instead of the granular approach of the weekly review.

> It’s a chance to evaluate the big picture and consider more fundamental changes to your goals, priorities, and systems that you might not have the chance to think about in the busyness of the day-to-day.
>
> Tiago Forte, “[[Building a Second Brain]]”, p. 215

This are some actions to do on a monthly review:

- **Review and update my goals**
	- What successes or accomplishments did I have?
	- What went unexpectedly and what can I learn from it?
- **Review and update my project list**
	- Archiving any completed or canceled projects
	- Adding new projects
	- Updating active projects to reflect how they’ve changed
- **Review my areas of responsibility**
	- Decide if there’s anything I want to change or take action on
- **Review someday/maybe tasks**
- **Re prioritize tasks**