I have a system for managing task attention and work that I’ve developed and used from time to time (particularly on software projects) called a "war list." Today, Steve asked me if I’d formalized it at all, and it seemed like a good blog post topic, so here it goes.

The war list is a list of tasks on a sheet of paper. Yes, this must be real, physical paper. The tasks should be related - tasks for a particular project, for example. If you have multiple projects going, it’s probably best to maintain a separate war list for each project. It provides a nice clean context break between projects.

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