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Eisenhower Matrix Builder (4 Quadrants)

Paste one task per line as task;urgent;important with 1 or 0 flags, and read them sorted into do now, schedule, delegate and drop.

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Urgent and important are not the same

Your list has 14 items and every one of them feels urgent. The Eisenhower matrix pulls apart two things people blend together: urgency is a deadline closing in, importance is whether the task still matters a month from now. Write one task per line with those two flags and the tool splits the list into four buckets: do now, schedule, delegate and drop.

Each line reads name;U;I, semicolon separated, U for urgent and I for important, each one 1 or 0. Example: Pay property tax;1;1. Anything that is not a number silently becomes zero, so typing yes instead of 1 drops the task into the delete quadrant without warning. The result prints as one line of text with the four quadrants split by pipes, not as a drawn grid, and the labels come out in Portuguese: Fazer jΓ‘, Planejar, Delegar, Eliminar.

What makes the matrix work is being strict with the I flag. If everything is important, the tool just sorts by urgency and you gained nothing. A useful test: if I never do this, what breaks a month from now? Q3, urgent but not important, is where agenda-less meetings and other people requests live, and it is the bucket to delegate or decline. Nothing is saved: reload the page and the default example comes back while your list is gone.

Frequently asked questions

How do I format each line?
Task name;1;0 with semicolons. The first number is urgency, the second is importance, and 1 means yes.
Can I save or export the matrix?
No. The result is text on screen, so copy it into wherever you actually plan your work. Reloading the page wipes it.
My Q1 is always full. What does that tell me?
Usually that Q2 is being ignored. An important task that nobody schedules turns urgent on its own a few weeks later.

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