Glossary / Two-Minute Rule

Two-Minute Rule

If a task takes less than two minutes, do it immediately.

From David Allen's Getting Things Done. Prevents small tasks from accumulating into overwhelming backlog.

Related

• Getting Things Done (GTD) — David Allen's task management system based on capturing everything.

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