What are the four Eisenhower quadrants?

Urgent and important means do it now; important but not urgent means schedule it; urgent but not important means delegate it; neither means delete it.

Where does my list go?

Everything stays in your browser tab and is never sent anywhere. Closing or reloading the page clears the list.

Can I reclassify a task?

Remove the task and re-add it with different urgent or important flags to move it to another quadrant.

What is the difference between urgent and important?

Urgent means it demands attention now — a deadline, a ringing phone. Important means it contributes to your long-term goals. Many urgent things are not important, which is exactly the trap the matrix is built to expose.

Where did the Eisenhower Matrix come from?

It is named after US President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who said "What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important." Author Stephen Covey popularised it as a 2x2 grid in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

Which quadrant should I focus on?

The "Schedule" quadrant — important but not urgent — is where high-value work lives: planning, learning, prevention and relationships. Spending more time here shrinks the stressful "Do now" pile over time.

Why delegate the urgent-but-not-important tasks?

These tasks have to happen soon but do not need your specific skills, so they are the best candidates to hand to someone else. That frees your attention for the important quadrants only you can handle.

Eisenhower Matrix — Gera Tools

Eisenhower Matrix — decide what to do first

The Eisenhower Matrix is a prioritisation method named after US President Dwight D. Eisenhower, popularised by Stephen Covey. It sorts every task by two questions: is it urgent, and is it important? Those two answers place each task into one of four quadrants, so you spend time on what actually matters instead of just what feels loud.

How it works

Each task you add carries two flags — urgent and important — and the tool drops it into a quadrant by combining them:

	Important	Not important
Urgent	Do now	Delegate
Not urgent	Schedule	Delete

Do now (urgent + important) — handle immediately.
Schedule (important, not urgent) — plan a time; this is your highest-leverage quadrant.
Delegate (urgent, not important) — hand it to someone else.
Delete (neither) — drop it.

Example

Add “Pay overdue invoice” flagged urgent and important — it lands in Do now. Add “Write next quarter’s plan” as important but not urgent — it lands in Schedule. Add “Reply to a non-critical Slack ping” as urgent but not important — it lands in Delegate. Add “Scroll the news feed” as neither — it lands in Delete.

Everything runs in your browser, so your task list is private and never uploaded; reloading the page clears it.