The all caps, imperative examples remove me of old school text adventure commands. In fact, that’s how I try to write my own to-do lists or project milestones:

The all caps, imperative examples remove me of old school text adventure commands. In fact, that’s how I try to write my own to-do lists or project milestones: VERB [ADJECTIVE] OBJECT (e.g. GET LAMP). If I can’t reduce a task or milestone name to that level of abstraction, then it can probably be broken down into smaller steps. Plus it’s a fun mental challenge. :)