A work breakdown approach to one’s own workload:

Is intended to ease the management and processing of tasks.

Is a quantity-driven process.

Is used to identify cause-effect relations between certain events.

A typical high-priority task implies:

The delivery of inputs is due in the next 10 days.

The delivery of inputs is due not before 10 days.

The delivery of inputs that are necessary to move things forward at other people’s desks.

Time boxes:

Are timeslots in your calendar that you can use to focus on high-priority tasks.

Are timeslots in your calendar that you can use to recharge your energies.

Are timeslots for exercise and social media.

A common hack for managing and storing working documents implies:

Storing your notes by topic.

Delegate this function to admin staff.

Storing all of your notes in digital format.