Urgency / importance sort
Add each task and mark whether it's important and whether it's urgent. The tool sorts it into do, schedule, delegate, or delete.
The Eisenhower method separates two things we habitually confuse: importance (does this move you toward what matters?) and urgency (does this demand attention now?). Most people spend their days on the urgent and let the important-but-not-urgent slide — which is exactly the work that shapes the future.
Every task lands in one of four quadrants. Important and urgent: do it now. Important but not urgent: schedule it, and protect that time. Urgent but not important: delegate it if you can. Neither: delete it without guilt.
Type a task, mark whether it's important and whether it's urgent, and add it. The tool drops it into the right quadrant automatically. Work through your list quickly and honestly — the value is in the sorting, not in perfecting each label.
Then act on the shape of the board. A pile in ‘do now’ signals you're living in crisis; a healthy list has real weight in ‘schedule’, the quadrant where important, non-urgent work waits to be given time.
Pay closest attention to the ‘schedule’ quadrant — the important, non-urgent tasks. These lose every day to the merely urgent, and they are usually the ones that, done consistently, change your situation. If that quadrant is empty, you may be mistaking busyness for progress.
Use it when your list has outgrown your day and everything feels equally pressing — a weekly planning pass, a chaotic morning, or any moment you're busy but suspect you're not working on what matters.
‘Write the hiring plan’ is important but not urgent — it goes to schedule, and tends to get bumped for days. ‘Reply to a routine request’ is urgent but not important — delegate it. Seeing them side by side makes the swap obvious: the plan is what actually matters.
Underlying idea: Eisenhower Matrix ›