What does your workflow look like?
This solves, for me, the problem of picking the 'right' thing to do from my list. I just do the things for that day. Be flexible, when you have extra time you can pull things closer, when it's balls to the wall, just shift some tasks to a later date.
I've been doing this for about 25 years, it works for me, might work for others too.
edit: I don't do notes, as such. Never felt the need to write something down that I won't ever look at again anyway.