Title: Many great ideas, loosely connected, inconsistently explained
Product review: I finally took the "Next Action" of studying (not scanning) this widely acclaimed book. The many ideas and systems described by Allen sound great but, in the end, do not generate a coherent system. Of the dozens I could cite, I give just two examples.1. On page 170 he admonishes the reader to not use a categorization of "Hold and Review". One paragraph later he says that anything that one would have put in "Hold/Review" should actually go in "Read/Review"....with no substantive differentiation.2. The book is replete with instances where Allen creates a proper noun such as "Someday/Maybe" and then overlays it with another word "Incubate"...which sounds an awful lot like "Hold (incubate?) and Review".While I did not attempt to do so, my overwhelming impression is that a systematic reconsideration of the system and a rewriting of the book in which every component fits in a coherent way with the next, could turn this into a useful system.
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