One of OmniFocus’s best features is its structuring of a weekly review. OmniFocus basically makes a to-do list of your to-do list, and presents your projects to you for review, which you then tick off as done. This review is saved as metadata, so you can keep yourself accountable about reviewing your open loops.

I would argue that, besides capturing your commitments, the most important part of effectively using GTD is reviewing, weekly, your open loops: projects, tasks, calendar items, and notes.

So using Todoist requires you to create your own review, set a reminder, and dedicate time to doing so. There’s no GUI prompt as there is in OmniFocus. (You can, however, use one of Todoists’s templates.)

 

Todoist’s Weekly Review Template

There’s no reason you can’t just work your way down your projects list, and of course your inbox, as part of your weekly review. But I didn’t want to do that. So I created two filters:

My Weekly Review Filters

These filters show me what would be the equivalent of what OmniFocus would categorize as “active” (as opposed to deferred), and grouped by Home and Work projects.¹ (I otherwise create future projects as a subjproject under a project called “Future.”) Within these two projects, I use filters to show me available tasks, grouped by project. On one scrollable screen.

^{Home Weekly Review}    

 

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¹I’m jumping the gun a bit here, but I essentially created two projects: Home and Work, and then create specific projects under each area. This is because Todoist doesn’t (yet) support separating projects with a higher-level filing option (like areas of responsibility).