4个小技巧让你的任务清单更完美

3: Put Timings Against Each Task
3. 给每项任务都限时 Perhaps you write a to-do list every day, but you rarely get through more than a few items on it. Unless you have at least a rough idea of how long your different tasks will take, you won’t know how many you can accomplish in a day.
每天都要写待办事项清单的你可能很少会把每一项都完成。若是你能大概估计完成每项任务需要的时间，你就知道一天可以完成哪些任务。

When you add an estimated time against each task, you get several great benefits:
当你给每个任务都添加了大概的时间，你会有所收获的哦：

You can race against the clock, trying to beat your time estimate – making you more efficient.
为了在你预计的时间范围内完成任务，你要和时间赛跑，这样，你会变得更有效率。

As time goes by, you’ll get a clearer sense of how long different tasks take (and you might be surprised by what you find)
时间一点一滴在流逝，你会很清楚不同的任务要完成需要的准确时间（可能你会很意外发现原来自己还有估计时间的功能）。

4: Batch Together Similar Tasks
4. 把类似的任务放在一起

If you’ve got a bunch of similar tasks, try to do them in batches, rather than one at a time. For instance, if you need to make ten phone calls this week, it’ll be most efficient to do them all at once.
如果有一堆差不多性质的任务，你可以把它们归成一项，而不是逐个逐个去完成。 比如，你这个周要打十个电话，如果你一次性全部打完是不是会更有效率点呢？

The same goes for lots of common tasks like:
同样，也适用于这些相同的任务：

Reading and answering your emails
查看并回复邮件

Looking up specific facts / information for your report
查找报告要用的详细资料

Finding great images to use for your presentation
找演讲要用的图片

Sometimes, this might mean reorganizing the way you complete a particular project. If you normally create each slide for your presentation separately, finishing Slide 1 before starting Slide 2, you might find that it’s more efficient to create draft text for all the slides, then find and add images.
有时候，这样也许会让你更有组织性地完成某项任务。倘若你是逐个制作你演讲要用的幻灯片，做完一张接着做下一张，你会发现给所有的幻灯片用一个文本会更有效率，接着只需要添加图片就可以了。