You might be familiar with that niggling sense that you have not finished something. It might be an email you intended to send before lunch, the meeting notes you promised to circulate or the project that is edging towards completion. These unfinished tasks often nudge us while we are in the shower, on our commute or lie in bed at night, using valuable cognitive resources that could be spent elsewhere. 'Thinking about the content of unfinished tasks could be using up prime mental resources and causing stress', explains Elaine Kinsella. 'While many factors influence our cognition, there is an opportunity for us all to reflect on our own experience of unfinished tasks at work, and to consider adopting strategies to work with it, not against it.' https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2025/0527/1515089-work-unfinished-tasks-to-do-list-zeigarnik-effect/