A work breakdown approach to one’s own workload:

Is a quantity-driven process.

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

Is intended to ease the management and processing of tasks.

A typical high-priority task implies:

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

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

The delivery of inputs is due not before 10 days.

Time boxes:

Are timeslots for exercise and social media.

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

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

A common hack for managing and storing working documents implies:

Delegate this function to admin staff.

Storing your notes by topic.

Storing all of your notes in digital format.