What is GTD daily review?

GTD daily review is a concept in personal epistemology: Process your information inbox at a consistent time daily to prevent backlog.

Example: You decide to process your email, notes, and read-it-later queue every morning at 8:30am, right after you pour your second cup of coffee. The first week, it takes 45 minutes because the backlog is large. By the second week, it takes 25 minutes because yesterday's processing kept the volume manageable. By the fourth week, the habit fires automatically — you sit down with your coffee and your hands open the inbox without conscious deliberation. You do not think about whether to process today. You do not weigh it against other options. You process because it is 8:30am and that is what 8:30am means. The backlog that used to accumulate over weeks and produce periodic overwhelm crises simply does not form. Not because you became more disciplined. Because you became habitual.

This concept is part of Phase 43 (Information Processing) in the How to Think curriculum, which builds the epistemic infrastructure for information processing.