🎯 Priority Matrix
Add your tasks, mark each one urgent and/or important, and see them sorted into the four Eisenhower quadrants — do, schedule, delegate, or eliminate.
🧭 Sort Your Tasks
What is a Priority Matrix?
Also known as the Eisenhower Matrix, it splits your to-do list across two questions: is this urgent, and is this important? The answers place every task in one of four quadrants, each with a clear default action — tackle it yourself right away, block time for it later, hand it to someone else, or cut it loose.
Use it when your task list feels overwhelming and everything seems equally pressing. Naming what's actually important — versus just loud and urgent — helps you spend more time on the work that moves you forward instead of constantly reacting.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Eisenhower Matrix?
It's a simple decision framework, popularized by President Dwight Eisenhower and later Stephen Covey, that sorts tasks along two axes — urgency and importance — into four quadrants. Each quadrant carries its own default action: do it now, schedule it, delegate it, or eliminate it.
What's the difference between urgent and important?
Urgent tasks demand immediate attention — they have a deadline or consequence that hits soon, like a ringing phone. Important tasks move you toward your goals and values, but rarely have a hard deadline forcing action today, like exercise or long-term planning. A task can be one, both, or neither.
Why does the 'not urgent but important' quadrant matter most?
Tasks that are important but not urgent — planning, learning, relationship-building, prevention — are the easiest to keep postponing because nothing forces you to do them today. Left unscheduled, they get crowded out by urgent busywork, which is why this tool encourages you to actively schedule them rather than let them slide.
What should I do with tasks in the 'delegate' and 'eliminate' quadrants?
Urgent-but-not-important tasks (delegate) are good candidates to hand off to someone else, automate, or batch, since they demand attention but don't need your specific expertise. Tasks that are neither urgent nor important (eliminate) are the best places to cut — say no, defer indefinitely, or drop them entirely to free up time for what matters.