Found this great tip at a post at 43 folders:

Research dashes – I keep a plaintext file with a long-ass list of stuff to learn, fix, or improve on my computer. Stuff like “learn Perl,” “find out why Mail crashes on CTRL-click,” or “research cheap external hard drives.” These kinds of items represent very low-pressure and low-priority on my radar screen, but I do like to make progress on a few of them from time to time. Try scheduling “a dash”, 2 to 4 hours, twice a month for researching and conquering little stuff that’s been driving you nuts. This not only gives you a chance to review, update, and solve the stuff that’s probably stealing seconds from every day, but you can also start to watch for interesting patterns that might indicate bigger problems and opportunities (“Whoa: time to get a new laptop”).

Lately, I’ve been doing something like this. In the past, all of these sort of tasks would end up as separate to do’s, which would totally overemphasize their importance and I’d end up trying to do them as soon as I thought of them, which is very counter-productive. The key for me was to realize that I already spend too much time with computers and having a zillion next actions related to them just exacerbates that. I have to “hide” these sorts of random computer things in a place that I check only occasionally, so that they don’t crowd out more important things.