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What Should I Do First?

Break decision paralysis on a long to-do list.

All 8 entries on the What Should I Do First?

  1. 1The quickest task
  2. 2The hardest task
  3. 3The oldest task
  4. 4The one you’re avoiding
  5. 5The one due soonest
  6. 6Email/messages
  7. 7Tidy your space first
  8. 8Take a 5 min break

Every entry is editable. Clear the list and paste your own names, or use Import to pull them from a CSV file, an Excel sheet or a Google Sheet.

How to use the What Should I Do First?

Selection strategies rather than specific tasks, so the wheel works with whatever list you already have. On a long list the cost of choosing badly is almost always lower than the cost of not starting.

  • "The one you’re avoiding" is usually the highest-value result and the one you will want to re-spin.
  • Only use this when everything is genuinely similar in priority — for real deadlines, ignore the wheel.
  • Commit to twenty minutes on whatever it lands on. Starting is the part the wheel is solving.

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