+1 on this... My serial distraction until I finally switched to paper was writing TODO apps for myself, then abandoning them. The only one that worked well for an extended period of time would literally show you one task to do. You could do it, or choose one of the options like "cannot do for X hours" (e.g. I need to vacuum and someone else in the house is asleep, or whatever), "not enough mental energy" (it would postpone and filter out the tasks you assigned the same level of mental energy, I was going to add a feature where that is deduced automatically), etc., in which case it would show you another single task to do. You could never see more than one task.