Definitely a great one! You can't buy your way to productivity with fancy tech. Though a nice ergonomic keyboard, standing desk, and eye-level monitor certainly doesn't hurt.

For list making I've found Eisenhower matrixes[0] to be incredibly useful. That eventually morphed into me using a trello board with four columns that line up with the four quadrants, here's an example:

https://trello.com/b/pfcMyml7/eisenhower-matrix-inspired-tod...

[0]: http://www.eisenhower.me/eisenhower-matrix/