An interesting article is this one by Jim Bird. He has a list of four simple time-management techniques that are to me controversial. He suggests throwing away your “to-do” list.While the first one is to use a day planner, the second is to throw away your to-do list and instead use the technique of deciding “when” you will do a task, which is the key of this article.I can see that by choosing “when” you have more of a concrete point in time that might see your task done instead of the more amorphous “to-do” list. For me, I do have a to-do list, but it’s more of a way I can not lose the various threads of things. Instead, my email is more of my to do list. I continuously review it as most of my “to-do’s” are project related.