The 2-Minute Rule exists as part of GTD practice. It says spend up to two minutes deciding what to do with any action item. If you can deal with it within 2 minutes, do so. Otherwise decide to file for future reference, put on an actions list, delegate or bin.
I’ve been working through a large list of outstanding blog feeds this morning and have been quite merrily scanning and then binning or filing. What I haven’t been doing is deciding. The bin decision is easy but with filing I have not been considering what I really want to do with the material. It struck me that I’m keeping thing in Outlook for searching when google does all that for me, if I ever need it. And the truth is that in most cases, I probably won’t.