Quote Originally Posted by Gardener View Post
- Sometimes I'll give an item a repeating start date. So I set a action to start next Monday, and to repeat every week. On Monday it pops up, I say, "Pfft. Not this week,", I check it off as complete, and I know it'll reappear next Monday. Someday when I really do complete it, I'll remove the repeater and check it off once and for all.
In GTD that's properly handled with a "Someday/Maybe" list. There are advantages to looking over a lot of "Someday/Maybe" items at the same time, at a time you've chosen to do that. There are other advantages to having them pop up within your system like that.

My "powers of 2" system allows me to take a few days (when sick, on vacation,
very busy etc.) during which I don't look at things like that and no backlog
accumulates. I have to make sure I don't over-use that feature.