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There are two main approaches to self-management:

• by specifying long-term goals and then decomposing them down to actionable tasks, as formalized in Stephen R. Covey's "7 Habits of Highly Effective People" and the Franklin-Covey (FC) method;
• or by focusing on achieving tasks efficiently every day and then extracting priorities and long-term goals, as formalized in David Allen's Getting Things Done (GTD) method.

Both approaches are complementary and can be combined. I find that GTD is much more efficient than FC for day-to-day organization, but FC is much more developed than GTD for long-term thinking. Both methods coincide at weekly reviews. In this article, I describe in details how I combine both methods in my GTD weekly reviews, using Covey's weekly compass.

I have extended my self-management (aka "time management") system today, on my Mac at work. I now combine OmniFocus for day-to-day management, OmniOutliner for higher-level management, and a small homemade AppleScript script implementing a weekly compass ala Franklin-Covey. I am sharing that weekly compass implementation below, as I have not yet found any software implementing that, except for the software edited by Franklin-Covey, although I am convinced that it is an important self-management concept.