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We rounded up some of our go-to to-do list tips, including making time-based goals, sorting tasks into categories, and ditching the list altogether. Share on Pinterest There’s nothing quite like ...

4. Decide what's a priority. Burkeman has a trick for deciding what's important: Take one of your existing to-do list tasks and ask "why" repeatedly — at least five times, he says.

When the workday rolls around, get to work on priority one, then two and three. To set priorities effectively, write out your to-do list the night before.

Priority level is a factor of more than just due date. For example, a 30-minute task due in two days is lower priority than a two-day task due in three days despite having an earlier due date.

Bestselling author Jake Knapp keeps his to-do list, called The Burner List, focused on one priority at a time. A to-do list, he says, that defies all the rules.