Now that I have my Life Design Planner in Obsidian another distinction I have made is my to-do list and the list of things I am working on. In the past, my to-do list has become long because of all the things I focus on, my projects are on the to-do list.
I now have one list for the things I am focusing on such as blog posts for my personal blog or my JournaledLife site. Within these are the things that need to be done, but I allocate a certain amount of time to them and what gets done gets done.
The to-do list is all the tasks that need to get done. Now this list is short and focused.
The focus frees up my mind from keeping track of all the things. The to-do list is for the core activities that have to get done now.