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Eisenhower Matrix

Sort what you have to do by how urgent and how important it is, on a 2x2 board with a quadrant for doing, scheduling, delegating and dropping. Type tasks straight into a quadrant or paste a list, drag them around as things change, then save the finished matrix as an image or copy it as a Markdown checklist.

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Add a task

Every quadrant also has its own add row, and a task can be dragged from one quadrant to another at any time. Click a task to rename it.

Matrix

My week

Do first

Urgent and important

Work on these yourself, today.

2

Schedule

Important, not urgent

Give each one a date before it turns urgent.

2

Delegate

Urgent, not important

Hand these to someone else if you can.

1/2

Delete

Neither urgent nor important

Drop these, or park them for another time.

1
Tasks
7
Open
6
Done
1
Unsorted
0

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About the Eisenhower Matrix Tool

This tool builds an Eisenhower matrix: a 2x2 board that sorts what you have to do by how urgent and how important it is. Each of the four quadrants comes with its own answer, from working on something today to dropping it entirely.

Type a task straight into a quadrant, or paste a list you already have and drag each task into place. Ticking tasks off, renaming them and moving them between quadrants all happen on the board itself, so the matrix stays current while you work through it.

What you can do

  • Build an Eisenhower matrix from your own task list.
  • Drag tasks between the urgent and important quadrants as priorities change.
  • Save the finished matrix as a PNG or JPG to share with your team.
  • Copy the matrix as a Markdown checklist for a README, a ticket or your notes.
  • Paste a list from a notes app and have headings and tags file it under the right quadrant.
  • Tick tasks off and either keep them on the board or hide them.

How to use the Eisenhower Matrix

  1. 1Type a task into the box above the board and pick its quadrant, or type it straight into one of the four quadrants.
  2. 2Drag tasks between quadrants as things change. The menu on each row does the same without a mouse.
  3. 3Give the matrix a title and decide what it shows: axis labels, the advice per quadrant, the task counts.
  4. 4Press Save as image for a picture of the board, or copy it as a Markdown checklist.

How the four quadrants work

The matrix asks two questions about every task. Does it need attention now, and does it move something that matters. The answers put it in one of four quadrants: Do first for urgent and important work, Schedule for important work that is not urgent yet, Delegate for urgent work that is not really yours, and Delete for what is neither.

Most of the value sits in the second quadrant. Work that is important but not urgent is the work that gets pushed back until a deadline turns it into a fire, so it is worth giving each of those tasks a date rather than leaving it on a list. The idea goes back to a line often attributed to Dwight D. Eisenhower, that what is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.

Pasting a list you already have

The Paste a list button reads a written list onto the board. One task per line, and list markers like -, * or 1. are stripped off. A [x] checkbox marks a task as done, and a heading such as ## Do first or Urgent and important: files everything under it into that quadrant.

Single tasks can carry #urgent and #important tags instead, which is handy when the list came out of a notes app with no structure. Anything that names no quadrant lands in the unsorted tray above the matrix, ready to be dragged where it belongs. Pasting can either add to the board or replace it.

Sharing the matrix

Save as image captures the board as a PNG or JPG, with a background, rounded corners, padding and resolution you can set before downloading. Only the matrix itself ends up in the picture: the unsorted tray, the add rows and the buttons on each task stay out of it, so the export reads as a finished board.

The Markdown copy is the same board written as a checklist, one heading per quadrant, which drops straight into a README, a pull request or an issue. Check how it will look with the Markdown Preview, and paste it back in later to carry on where you left off.

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