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Sentence 110

Before
A typical day starts with a task list at hand to give the day some structure like maybe drafting articles, tracking news and fixing interactions, crawls into all ad hoc activities that takes priority and ends with completing both.

After
A typical day starts with a task list to give the day some structure.Tasks usually include drafting articles, tracking news, and fixing interactions and crawls. 

 In the 'before' version, the author tries to cram in too much. The use of 'maybe' is colloquial. The tasks are not parallel in structure. "Completing both" - both what? It is not clear that 'drafting articles etc' are the tasks being referred to.

 The 'after version' is split into two sentences and it fixes the issues stated above.
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