You know that thing where every time you try to do something, you spot another thing that needs doing, and then you get distracted, and *that* spawns another thing and you get distracted again, and you end up completely forgetting what you were trying to do in the first place?

Turns out that can be weaponized to deal with irregular chores like tidying up; when you do task A, and you spot task B, you *first* finish task A and *actively* remind yourself of task B continuously in the meantime, then once A is done you immediately continue on to B, which then spawns task C, and so on.

I've found it a very helpful way to overcome the "I don't know where to start" / "this is so much work that I don't have a clear picture" problem; just pick up an arbitrary item, try to store it, and trust that it will spawn the next task in the process.

Before you know it, you've taken a significant bite out of your todo list, despite not actively tracking what you're doing. Because it usually doesn't really matter *what* you do, just *that* you do something, anything. And you never need to remember more than one 'next' task at a time.