Nice idea to start fresh.
One more suggestion, that certainly helped me: cut off the recs at a certain point, so that you can concentrate on what you have and not be constantly battling the tide. In other words, once your in-tray gets full enough, empty it and don't allow any more work in till your out-tray is, if not full, at least reasonably full. I find that otherwise, people just keep piling rec after rec on you and you end up drowning in them.
And I'm saying that, with two or three recs a day being done in my thread!