Areas of Focus

What an Area of Focus is

An Area of Focus is an ongoing responsibility, such as Work, Home, Health, or Family. Unlike a Project, it never finishes.

Using Areas

• An item can belong to more than one Area. Choose them when you clarify or edit an item.
• The Area filter in the top bar narrows your lists to one Area.
• Do Now can filter by Area too.

Managing your Areas

Open Areas of Focus from the Organize group. You can add an Area, rename it, change the order, archive it, or delete it.

Archive hides an Area from the choices and from the Area filter but keeps it, and you can restore it later. Delete removes the Area for good and cannot be undone. Before it does, NextAction asks you to confirm and tells you how many items and projects use the Area. They stay in your lists and only lose the Area tag. The confirmation also offers Archive instead, which is the safer choice if you are not sure.

Review them

Step 6 of the Weekly Review asks you to look over your Areas so nothing you care about is neglected.