I know exactly how you feel, I've had huge unread inboxes, plenty of articles to read, albums to listen to, DIY and other projects to do/finish, just generally

I know exactly how you feel, I've had huge unread inboxes, plenty of articles to read, albums to listen to, DIY and other projects to do/finish, just generally a ton of stuff on an unmanageable to-do list. Not to mention the physical parts of those aforementioned things piling up. The best thing that happened to me was that my girlfriend agreed to move in with me. That gave me a clear deadline for cleaning out and cleaning up the physical part of the mess, and really forced me to reevaluate which things to keep around and which to just scrap outright. When you have to condense two apartments into one, you have to be smart about which things you allow to take up space. I took this mentality to my non-physical mess as well, unsubscribed from all mailing lists and took a hatchet to my open tabs, bookmarks and various read-later lists. Nowadays I try to read or listen to or generally check out stuff ASAP instead of putting it off. For things like books, I keep a very short strictly curated list of authors/books that I would like to read next, I try to keep it to around 5 items at any given time. I have ADD traits, and keeping myself from creating unmanageable to-do lists really helps me with that.