Further influence
David Allen
Productivity consultant · Getting Things Done
“A held-open loop rents space in your mind until you close it.”
The idea
Allen coined "open loops": any commitment you haven't captured keeps pulling at your attention, occupying mental bandwidth until your mind can trust it lives somewhere reliable. Capture everything, and the mind goes quiet — "mind like water."
How it shaped Orbit
The Open Loops feature takes his name and his premise directly. Every promise either side made, pulled from the actual message with the receipt attached, so it stops renting space in your head. The point isn't a to-do list — it's the relief of knowing nothing is silently slipping.
In the appOpen Loops