Process your inbox down to zero regularly

This is from Getting-Things-Done-David-Allen-2016. While it’s important to gather-everything-in-an-inbox, it may be that if you leave things in there you quickly become overwhelmed again. Therefore you must go through each item and define-the-next-action for everything, moving them out of the inbox.

Think of the inbox as a place where you keep things before you decide what to do with them, rather than a place for long term storage.

A good time to clear out the inbox is the Weekly-Review.