Do · Schedule · Delegate · Delete

Eisenhower

Everything feels urgent. Urgency and importance are different — separating them is the whole game. Sort the chaos into four quadrants and the next move is obvious.

Add a task

Classify the task

Urgency and importance are different. Mark both and Eisenhower sorts the rest. A thinking aid — not advice.

Your focus list

  1. DoProduction server is down
  2. SchedulePlan next quarter's goals
  3. DelegateReply to that low-stakes ping

Do now

1

Urgent and important. Handle it yourself, today.

  • Production server is down

Schedule

1

Important, not urgent. Give it a time before it becomes a fire.

  • Plan next quarter's goals

Delegate

1

Urgent, not important. Someone else can carry this.

  • Reply to that low-stakes ping

Delete

1

Neither urgent nor important. Let it go.

  • Scroll the feed

How the sort was decided

classify.log
$ eisenhower --sort
#01 [urgent · important] "Production server is down" -> DO
#02 [not-urgent · important] "Plan next quarter's goals" -> SCHEDULE
#03 [urgent · not-important] "Reply to that low-stakes pi…" -> DELEGATE
#04 [not-urgent · not-important] "Scroll the feed" -> DELETE
done · do:1 schedule:1 delegate:1 delete:1

Every decision is one rule applied locally. No account, no network, nothing stored.