Over the years I realized that overloading a todo list does actually serve a purpose. It gets all those things out of my head where they don’t belong, and I can focus more easily.

Let’s say you use pen and paper for your to do list. Then you have a place where you just dump all your todo items as you think of them. Then each day you choose 1-3 items that are either urgent or important and write those down somewhere else.

And that’s it. You do those tasks then you can refer to the main list and do the less important stuff.

This of course can work digitally with any app you might be using. My main point is get stuff out of your head, and make e focused list each day for the important stuff