Template · Decision-making & prioritisation
Eisenhower Matrix template
For sorting your work by urgent and important into do, schedule, delegate or drop. Leave it alone when the tasks depend on each other; a project needs a plan, not a grid. Instead A plan with the dependencies in it; tasks that wait on each other need sequencing, not sorting.
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Or work it through here
Capture the full task list first, then place each task in its quadrant and write the verdict beside it, scheduling quadrant-two work into real diary slots. Your entries persist for this browser session and can be copied out as Markdown or printed.
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Originator: Contested; named after Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose 1954 speech quoted the urgent-important maxim, and formalised as a four-quadrant matrix by Stephen R. Covey. The framework itself is not ours to license, and the written entry behind this page, its worked example, critiques and sources, stays all rights reserved. The full licence position is set out in plain English.
Before you fill it in
A blank template is the easy part. The entry behind it covers how to run Eisenhower Matrix properly, a worked example, the pitfalls real teams hit, and the situations where it is the wrong tool and something else would serve better.