Eisenhower Matrix
Sort your tasks into the four Eisenhower quadrants and see what to do first, what to schedule, what to hand off, and what to drop. Runs in your browser.
- Free, no sign-up
- REST + MCP
- Updated
- Reviewed by Olgun Ozoktas
No tasks yet
Add a task above, mark whether it is urgent and whether it is important, and it will drop into one of the four quadrants.
Paste a list
One task per line. Add !u for urgent, !i for important, and a date like 2026-09-30.
How to use the Eisenhower Matrix
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Write down every task
Get the whole list out first, before you judge any of it. Type each task, or paste a list one task per line. Sorting is easier when nothing is still in your head. -
Mark what is urgent
Urgent means a deadline is pressing now. If a task has a due date, enter it and the tool marks the task urgent once the date falls inside the window you set, which defaults to two days. Anything overdue counts as urgent. -
Mark what is important
Important means the task moves something you care about forward. This is a separate judgement from urgency, and most misprioritised work comes from treating the two as the same question. -
Read the four quadrants
Do First is urgent and important. Schedule is important only. Delegate is urgent only. Eliminate is neither. The tool names the single task to start on above the grid. -
Act on the bottom two quadrants
The matrix pays off when you actually delegate and actually delete. Work through Delegate and Eliminate deliberately rather than leaving them to sit. -
Export the result
Download the sorted list as CSV or JSON, or copy it as Markdown to paste into your notes or a ticket.
Who uses an Eisenhower Matrix
Anyone with a to-do list longer than a day
Managers deciding what to hand off
Students planning around deadlines
Teams running a planning session
Why use the Eisenhower Matrix?
The Eisenhower Matrix, sometimes called the urgent-important matrix or the Eisenhower box, sorts tasks along two axes. Urgency asks whether something has to happen soon. Importance asks whether it matters. Crossing them gives four quadrants, and each one carries a different instruction: do it, schedule it, delegate it, or delete it.
This tool does that sorting for you. Add tasks, mark each as urgent or important, or give it a due date and let urgency follow the calendar: a task becomes urgent once its date falls inside a window you choose, and anything overdue is always urgent. Tasks can be sorted within each quadrant by the order you added them, alphabetically, or by due date, and the tool names the one task to start with so the grid ends in a decision rather than a picture.
Everything is computed in your browser as you type. The same sorting is also available as a programmatic endpoint for scripts and AI agents, documented on the tool's API page. If you are ranking a product backlog rather than a to-do list, the Dev Request Prioritizer scores requests on value against effort, and the Tech Debt Register weighs severity against hours; both answer a different question from this one.
How it compares
Most people meet the Eisenhower Matrix as a square drawn on paper or a slide template. Drawing it by hand works, and it is worth doing once, but it does not survive a list that changes: moving a task between quadrants means redrawing, and a due date that passed yesterday does not move itself. A tool re-sorts as you edit and can derive urgency from the dates you already know.
Compared with a full task manager, this is deliberately small. There are no projects, assignees, reminders, or recurring tasks, and nothing syncs anywhere. It is for the half hour where you decide what actually matters, after which the result exports as CSV, JSON or Markdown and goes into whatever tool you already use.