The ER doesn’t treat whoever showed up first. It treats whoever needs it most. Your worries could use that system.

Sorting by who arrived first would be chaos in a hospital, so they sort by need instead. Your own attention tends to run the other way, giving the top slot to whatever interrupted most recently. A message about nothing can outrank the thing that actually matters, simply by arriving louder. Urgency and importance are different signals.

Write tomorrow’s list, then reorder it by what breaks if it gets left. Do the top item before you touch your phone, even when three smaller things are shouting.