Quote Originally Posted by treelike View Post
I suspect that what would happen here is that the brain would get used to there being nothing on the list and then assume there is never anything there and ultimately you would never check it.
Good point. Note I said "usually empty", not "always empty"! So, it actually helps the system if you occasionally put actions there, hopefully ones you can remove again quickly so it's still usually empty.

Actually, I was going to suggest to jduk: How about an NA list that usually has just one action listed? It would be the one action you consider most important or urgent. That way, you can quickly look at the list, verify that what you're doing now is more important than that, and conclude that what you're doing is more important than all the other actions on your Someday/Maybe list as well. Or, occasionally you could actually do the NA action, and then either leave your NA list empty for a while, or immediately select another action to move to it from Someday/Maybe.