Every day, I'm faced with a large number of tasks to do around the house, more than 100. They're already sorted by area of the house, tagged, labeled, all that good stuff, with all the appropriate smart lists to pluck them out in groups.

But I found that I was still getting stuck, overwhelmed by too many things, taking too much time jumping between lists for the different rooms, having trouble getting motivated to actually tackle the list.

So I've tried a new trick that's working quite well. I created three new smart lists, designed to only show me stuff due today and with each of the three priorities.

So I go to my master list that shows me *everything* due today and select all and press 1 to mark all as priority 1. Then to the list of eRewards and MyPoints emails that Gmail has forwarded in to their own smart lists as well as the smart list full of press releases that I need to post to my blog. Make those last two groups due today and also mark them priority 1.

Then I start at the top of the list (using the awesome keyboard commands "j/k" - up/down and "x" - select) and then it's simply a matter of...

- Do I really need to do today? If not, "p" to postpone.
- If yes, but I don't feel like doing yet, "2" (or "3" or "1") to move to the next list
- Or, I can go do the task and "C" to complete.

I'll can often whittle down to a managable list of 10 items, complete them all, and then control-arrow to move to the next list, repeating the process of whittling it down.

So I'm always ultimately working off a short list of things I feel like doing that are most likely the easiest things on my list (relatively speaking since all the easier things have already been done) and most likely clustered around a single topic or area of the home, whether it's stuff in the kitchen or vacuuming a few rooms (not a daily task, but a frequent one).