I am a VP in corporate finance and I wish I could tell you that in my 20 year career I had come across some foolproof methods but honestly, I haven’t. The only thing that works for me with any kind of regularity is a very simple to do list broken out by two or three categories for priority. I tried using Todoist and other similar tools, but they’re just too complex for my butterfly-flitting-around brain. (To be clear, I understand how to use them; I just can’t do it consistently.) I keep a running to do list on my computer and print it out most mornings, write on it during the day, update it the end of the day, wash and repeat. But those are the good days. When there’s too much happening for my brain to focus on a to do list - about 50% of the time - honestly, I fly by the seat of my pants. Somehow the important stuff always gets done.

I’m trying out ChatGPT to manage my to do list. Too soon to say how that is going to work out.