A system you don't review is a system you stop trusting. The Weekly Review wizard makes the habit nearly automatic: it walks you through every decision that keeps your system truthful, one screen at a time.
Task systems don't fail loudly. They fail by drift: a project stalls and nobody notices, Anytime fills with things you'll never do, and one day you realize you're keeping the real list in your head again. The review is the maintenance pass that prevents the drift — and because unstructured "go review your projects" advice never survives contact with a Sunday evening, Momentum makes it a wizard with a beginning, an end, and a decision at every step.
For each project you make one call:
Keep — it's alive. The wizard asks you to confirm there's a
concrete next action; a project without one is stalled by definition, whether
or not it feels that way.
Hold — deliberately paused. The project and its tasks move out
of your active lists until you release it. Paused-on-purpose is respectable;
stalled-by-accident is not.
Drop — it's over. Completed, cancelled, or admitted-to-be-never.
It moves to the Logbook.
Then the wizard sweeps your single tasks — including everything in Stale. Each one: still worth doing? Reword it, reschedule it, park it in Someday, or drop it. This is where the week's residue gets cleared.
Finally, a pass through Someday. Most items stay parked — that's fine and takes one keystroke each. But every week you'll find one whose moment has come, and promoting it here is how good ideas re-enter the system instead of composting in it.
Same time every week. Friday afternoon closes the week; Sunday evening or Monday morning opens the next one. Pick one and block it on your calendar.
Expect 20–30 minutes. The first review after a messy stretch runs longer. That's the mess leaving the system, not the review being slow.
Don't do the work during the review. The review is for deciding, not doing. If you catch yourself knocking out tasks mid-review, capture the urge and keep moving.