Tool
Eisenhower matrix online
Paste a real to-do list, one item per line, and sort it into four quadrants. Then go through the same list with one question and compare which helped more.
Try it on your own list
Sort your tasks into quadrants
Paste a real list, one task per line. Nothing is sent anywhere: it all runs in this tab.
Tap a task, then tap the quadrant it belongs in.
Left to sort:
What happens if you do not do this this week?
Do first
Somewhere in the middle
Cross it off for good
The four quadrants
Urgent and important: it is on fire, do it now. Important, not urgent: health, study, anything that pays off in six months. Urgent, not important: other people’s requests and emails marked "urgent". Neither: things you could skip altogether.
The grid itself was drawn by Stephen Covey in 1989. In a 1954 speech Eisenhower only quoted the thought that the urgent is seldom important and the important seldom urgent.
Where the grid lets you down
On a real list nearly everything lands in the first quadrant: people rarely write down things that do not matter. After sorting you are left with ten items under "urgent and important" and the same question of where to start.
So the page has a second step. Each item gets one question: what happens if this is not done this week. The answer splits the list three ways: do first, keep in the middle, cross out.
The article: why the matrix fails on a long list
Keeping this on your phone
You do not need four quadrants on a screen. In KIPRI tasks a colour status on the items that have consequences is enough: urgent and normal.
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