Clothes pins

I couldn't sleep last night and ended getting up at 2am. I just had way too many ideas going around in my head, so I actually got up to write a to do list for today. I've started working on it, but the list turned out to be two pages long... No wonder I had trouble falling asleep.

The first thing on the list was to make more of these guys:

The list is long, so I need to get back to it. I do think I should start doing this more often though. Writing a list before going to bed, not getting up at 2am.

Do you have any good tricks for keeping to do lists and an uncluttered mind?