I’ve been using GTD for over 18 months.

However, because I have captured and organized EVERYTHING, my lists are now very long. I have nearly 700 projects (many of which require only 2 or 3 action steps, but they could need more than one, so they are projects) and over 1600 next actions. Some of my projects are low priority, but I still want to do them, and each has a next action that could be done whenever I’m in the appropriate context, so they are active projects. I also have about 130 checklists, and hundreds of Someday Maybes.

My problem is that to do a thorough weekly review takes several hours. Because of the time needed for the weekly review, I’ve now lost my motivation to do it, with the predictable consequence of feeling that I’ve lost control.

Has anyone else been in this situation, and if so, how did you cope with it?