[willj]

I like this idea, but isn’t this a recipe for only ever doing the urgent stuff, not the not-urgent-but-important stuff? For example, if your list had “read 1 chapter of SICP” on it, you might never get to it.

[ampersandy]

It’s not prioritization if it doesn’t hurt.

[yencabulator]

That sounds more like you need free time where you are not "working on tasks".