Try it in Mement
- If you want GTD organization, turn on Use GTD in Settings → General → Organization.
- Open Workflow → Inbox and choose Clarify to work through captured commitments.
- For each record, decide what it means, choose a status, make any needed edits, and Save. Skip leaves the saved record unchanged.
- Use Next Actions when you want to choose work that is ready, or inspect another status for its own kind of decision.
- Open All items → Review items for a broader review. Return through Continue review in the same context if you stop partway.
Choose the status that describes the commitment
Inbox holds something you still need to think through: “A reading corner by the window”. Next Actions holds work you are ready to do: “Measure the space beside the window”. Scheduled describes work you have chosen to plan: “Approve the shelf sketch”. Add the actual date separately when there is a time agreement.
Waiting For records an outside response or result, such as “Receive the carpenter’s sketch”. You can add optional text explaining who or what you are waiting for. Someday keeps an idea you want to revisit, such as “Explore a larger bookcase later”. These five choices help you decide what to inspect at different times.
Tasks, Lists, Projects, and Areas each have their own status. Habits and Spaces serve other purposes and do not use this classification. A Project’s status does not change its child Tasks’ statuses. Existing records without a recognized classification begin in Inbox, so your first Inbox can include plans you already created.
Turn one idea into a useful next action
Open the reading-corner idea from Inbox during Clarify. If it represents a result with several steps, keep that result in a Project and create or choose a Task such as “Measure the space beside the window”. Give the Task Next Actions when it is ready to do. Review the Project’s own status independently.
After taking measurements, you might create “Receive the carpenter’s sketch” as Waiting For. Once the sketch arrives, “Approve the shelf sketch” can become a separate ready or scheduled action. The statuses describe your decisions about those records; moving a record between them does not manufacture the next Task for you.
You can still use dates, tags, priorities, Spaces, and the hierarchy alongside GTD. A work tag plus Next Actions can form a Smart filter for actionable professional work across several Projects.
Set timing and completion separately
Choose a date and reminder when a commitment belongs to a particular time. Scheduled itself supplies no date. Waiting For can have a reminder for your own follow-up, and Next Actions can remain undated until you decide when to act.
To change classification, use a saved row’s Status menu or edit Organise → Status and Save. A completed record stays completed when you reclassify it. Turning GTD off preserves saved statuses and returns the ordinary All view, so the rest of your planning remains usable.
Use clarification and review for different decisions
Clarify begins with Inbox records that need a decision. Review revisits the records already classified. Use a status tab’s Review for that category, or All items → Review items to work more broadly through saved commitments.
An editor step advances after Save; Skip keeps the saved record unchanged. A Project or Area outside Inbox opens its details so you can inspect the result, contents, and Next Actions. Choose Next to acknowledge that review step. Saving a child Task alone does not acknowledge the Project’s review.
Closing a full review retains progress in that review context. Reopen the same Space and scope through Continue review when you want to continue. The weekly notification opens Analytics; start this GTD review inside Workflow when you are ready to make decisions about your plans.
Before you finish
- The chosen status says what should happen with each reviewed record.
- Dates and reminder times are set where an actual timing commitment exists.
- Active Projects have a next action, and review steps are saved or acknowledged deliberately.