Unfiled Bins as To-Do List

project management method where new bins of dailies are kept at the top level of the project window, outside of any organizational folders, until the editor has cut the scenes they contain. This practice turns the 'desktop' of the NLE into a visual to-do list; a clean top level signifies that all current material has been addressed. As assistant editor Cheryl Potter described of Pietro Scalia's workflow on 'The Martian,' 'if there’s a bin sitting at the top, you need to deal with it. And once you’ve dealt with it, you get to file it.'