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Eisenhower Matrix for Todoist is an independent web app, listed in Todoist’s integrations directory (https://www.todoist.com/integrations/apps/eisenhower-matrix). It is not created by, affiliated with, or supported by Todoist.

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## Features of Eisenhower Matrix for Todoist

> A detailed tour of Eisenhower Matrix for Todoist: Clean and Classic matrix views, quadrants as Todoist labels, filters and presets, the daily review, Single Task Focus, the Pomodoro cycle, ambient sounds, focus statistics and privacy.

Source: https://eisenhowertodoist.com/features/ · Last updated: 2026-09-28

Eisenhower Matrix for Todoist is a web app that shows your Todoist tasks in the four Eisenhower quadrants and helps you act on them: sort by urgency and importance, plan each day with a short review, and work one task at a time with a focus mode and a Pomodoro timer. Everything reads from and writes to your own Todoist account, so there is no second task list to keep in sync.

- **Works with:** Todoist, connected through Todoist’s OAuth
- **Runs on:** Any modern browser, desktop and mobile
- **Quadrants saved as:** Todoist labels on each task
- **Price:** 7-day free trial, then $4.99/month or $19.90 once

![Eisenhower Matrix for Todoist, Clean view: Do First with a late task and two due today, Schedule, Delegate and Backlog, with the keyboard shortcut strip above.](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/assets-static/img/clean-matrix-view.webp)

*The Clean view with demo tasks. Every screenshot on this page is the real app running on invented data.*

### Who it is for, and who it is not for

#### A good fit if you

- already keep your tasks in Todoist and want to see them by urgency and importance;
- want the sorting saved in Todoist, not in a separate app;
- like planning the day in a few minutes and then working one task at a time;
- use a keyboard a lot, or want a Pomodoro timer next to your tasks.

#### Probably not for you if you

- don’t use Todoist: the app has no task list of its own;
- need to work offline: tasks are read from and saved to Todoist live;
- want a native App Store or Google Play app: it is a web app;
- are looking for AI that decides priorities for you: optional AI suggestions only propose a quadrant, and nothing moves until you accept it.

### Clean and Classic views

The matrix comes in two layouts that show the same tasks. Press `V` to switch, or use the Clean / Classic switch above the matrix. The app remembers your choice in the browser.

#### Clean (the default)

A quiet cross layout: urgent on the left, important on top. Each quadrant shows a large count, a one-line summary (“1 late · 2 today”, “Next: Tomorrow”, “No dates”) and its tasks grouped by when they are due: *Late*, *Today*, *This week*, *Later* and *Someday*. Long quadrants scroll inside their own area, with a “more” pill that shows how many tasks are further down.

- Move with the arrow keys (or `J` `K` `H` `L`), act on the highlighted row with one key, and press `E` to expand a quadrant to the full width.
- Click a quadrant header to fold it; double-click to expand it.
- A strip above the matrix teaches the main keys. Press `?` for the full list, or hide the strip once you know them.

#### Classic

The traditional grid of four coloured cards, one per quadrant, each with a short description and a task count. Task cards show the due date, an overdue or today badge and the task description.

![Classic view: Do First and Schedule cards side by side, with task cards showing due dates and Overdue or Today badges.](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/assets-static/img/classic-matrix-view.webp)

*Classic view: the four-card grid.*

### Quadrant sorting with Todoist labels

Each quadrant is stored on the task in Todoist as an ordinary label, so your sorting shows up in every Todoist app and survives if you stop using this one.

- **Do First** (Urgent · Important): Do it now, one at a time. Examples: A client deliverable due today; A bug that blocks customers; A bill due tomorrow. Todoist label: @do.
- **Schedule** (Not urgent · Important): Give it a date or a time block. Examples: Planning next quarter; Exercise and health check-ups; Writing the proposal before it is due. Todoist label: @schedule.
- **Delegate** (Urgent · Not important): Hand it off, batch it, or say no. Examples: Meetings where you only listen; Routine requests and forms; Ordering supplies, booking travel. Todoist label: @delegate.
- **Backlog** (Not urgent · Not important): Drop it, or park it for later. Examples: Reorganising files that work fine; “Someday” ideas; Aimless scrolling. Todoist label: @backlog.

- **One quadrant per task.** Moving a task replaces its old quadrant label; your other labels stay. Matching ignores case.
- **Categorize.** The header button shows how many tasks have no quadrant yet. It opens a sheet that steps through them one at a time: press `1`–`4` to sort, `←` to go back, `→` to skip. **Recategorize** re-sorts tasks that already have a quadrant.
- **Move from the matrix.** Press `1`–`4` on a selected row. Every move shows a notification with **Undo**.
- **Several at once.** `Ctrl`/`⌘` + click, or `X` and `Shift`+`X` for a range, then move them with `1`–`4` or the bar at the bottom.
- **Add straight into a quadrant.** `N` (or “Add to …” at the end of a quadrant) creates the task in Todoist with that quadrant’s label, so it needs no sorting.
- **Auto-prioritize (optional).** In Settings › Automation, move tasks from any quadrant into Do First once a night when they are due soon. You choose how many days ahead, and whether tasks due today and overdue tasks are included.

### Filters, saved presets and Todoist filters

On desktop the filters live in one compact toolbar row above the matrix. Every filter applies to all four quadrants at once, and to the Single Task Focus queue.

![The filter row with the saved preset “Work week” applied: Project Work and Date This week, with Label and Priority unset, and the matrix narrowed to matching tasks.](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/assets-static/img/filter-bar-applied.webp)

*A saved preset applied: project Work, due this week.*

| Filter | What you can pick |
| --- | --- |
| Project | One or more projects, from a searchable list. Type to search, Enter or click to toggle, Backspace removes the last one. |
| Label | One or more of your Todoist labels, from the same kind of searchable list. |
| Priority | P1, P2, P3 and P4, as in Todoist. |
| Date | Overdue, Today, Today & overdue, Tomorrow, This week, Next week or Next month. |
| Subtasks | Hide subtasks, to see only top-level tasks. |

- **Saved presets.** Save the current combination under a name, reapply it from *Saved*, and star one as the default: it is applied when the app opens, unless you have already set filters in that session.
- **Your Todoist filters.** The filters you saved in Todoist appear under *From Todoist*. Applying one shows the tasks that filter matches in Todoist, sorted into quadrants. They are read-only here; you create and edit them in Todoist.
- **Clear all** resets everything in one click.

### Rename, complete with Undo, dates and snooze

You can do the everyday edits without leaving the matrix. Each one is written to the task in Todoist.

- **Rename in place.** Double-click a title, or press `R` (or `F2`) on the highlighted row. `Enter` or clicking away saves, `Esc` keeps the old name. The new name shows at once, the notification offers **Undo**, and if Todoist rejects the save the old name comes back. In Classic cards and in Single Task Focus, double-click the title.
- **Complete with Undo.** Press `Space` or click the circle. The notification offers **Undo**, which reopens the task in Todoist, subtasks included. Undo isn’t offered for recurring tasks.
- **Due dates and deadlines.** `D` opens the date picker (Today, Tomorrow, Next week or a calendar) and `Shift`+`D` the deadline picker.
- **Comments.** `C` opens the task’s Todoist comments, where you can read, add, edit and delete them.
- **Snooze on mobile.** Swipe a task left to move it to tomorrow; swipe right to complete it; press and hold for more options, including dates, a deadline, moving to another quadrant and opening the task in Todoist. Recurring tasks aren’t snoozed; the app asks you to reschedule them in Todoist.

### The daily review

A two-minute morning plan in three steps, **Clear → Choose → Commit**. It opens by itself once a day (not on the day you sign up), and the **Daily Review** button in the header opens it any time. *Skip today* closes it for the day.

1. **Clear** Every task that is overdue is listed with how long it has waited (“Since yesterday”). For each one: complete it, move it to today, move it to another quadrant, or skip it for now. Recurring tasks can be moved to today too. It also shows how many tasks you finished yesterday.
2. **Choose** Pick up to three tasks for today from Do First and Schedule (tasks due today or later, and undated ones). A few are tagged *Suggested* by a plain rule: due today first, then Do First, then Todoist priority. *Use suggestions* picks them in one click. No AI is involved.
3. **Commit** Confirm the plan. Your picks become Today’s focus.

![The daily review’s Choose step: “Pick today’s focus”, with two Do First tasks due today picked as Suggested and numbered 1 and 2.](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/assets-static/img/daily-review-choose.webp)

*Choose: up to three tasks, with plain-rule suggestions.*

### Today’s focus

The tasks you picked sit in a panel above the matrix all day, numbered in the order you chose them, with their quadrant, due date and priority, and a ring that fills as you complete them. Complete a task from the panel and it is completed in Todoist. *Edit* changes the picks; the × clears them. When a saved Todoist filter hides one of them, the panel says “Hidden by filter” instead of marking it done.

![The Today’s focus panel above the matrix with three numbered tasks: Prepare Q4 budget review, Reply to client proposal, Draft the 2027 product roadmap.](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/assets-static/img/todays-focus.webp)

*Today’s focus: three picks, above the matrix.*

### Single Task Focus

Select a task and press `Enter` to put just that task on screen (on a phone, use the focus button in the bottom bar). The rest of the matrix waits in a queue, so finishing one task leads straight into the next.

- **The queue is your filter.** It holds every task the matrix shows under the current filter, in matrix order from Do First to Backlog, with today’s focus tasks first. The header names the filter and a segmented line shows your progress.
- **Complete and keep going.** `Space` completes the task and the next one slides in. For five seconds, `U` (or the Undo button) reopens it in Todoist and brings it back. After the last task, the view tells you the queue is done.
- **Notes that sync.** `E` opens a note under the task. It saves as you type and goes to the task in Todoist as one comment when you close it or move on.
- **Search the queue.** `/` or `⌘`/`Ctrl`+`K` lists the open tasks in the queue; type to narrow, `↑` `↓` and `Enter` to jump. The timer keeps running.
- **Related tasks.** `R` shows up to three open tasks with a similar title, the same labels or the same project.
- **Everything else you need.** The task’s priority, due date, deadline, labels, description (with clickable links) and subtasks, which you can tick off. `←` `→` step through the queue; `Esc` closes search, then notes, then exits with a short session summary.

![Single Task Focus: the task Prepare Q4 budget review with priority, labels, description and a note, above the Pomodoro timer card showing 13:36 left, Focus, Short break next, Round 1 of 4.](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/assets-static/img/single-task-focus-pomodoro.webp)

*One task, its note and the timer. The queue is “All tasks”: 20 tasks, all quadrants.*

### The Pomodoro cycle

The timer card in Single Task Focus runs a full Pomodoro cycle: focus round, short break, focus round … and a long break after each set. The big clock counts down the current phase (*LEFT*, *BREAK*, *NEXT*, or *OVER* if you keep going), and a small line keeps the session’s total focus time.

| Preset | Focus | Short break | Long break |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Classic (default) | 25 min | 5 min | 15 min |
| Deep | 50 min | 10 min | 20 min |
| Light | 15 min | 3 min | 10 min |
| Custom | 5–120 min | 1–30 min | 5–60 min |

- **Rounds per set:** 4 by default, 2–6 in Custom.
- **Auto-start:** breaks start on their own by default; focus rounds wait for you, so time away is never counted as focus. Both are switches in Pomodoro settings.
- **Chime:** an optional sound at the end of each round and break (off by default).
- **Keys:** `P` pauses and resumes. `B` starts a break when a round is done, skips a running break, and starts the next round when a break is over.
- **Breaks are pauses.** Break time is not counted as focus, so your statistics stay honest. The timer keeps running while the tab is in the background, and can be minimised to a small bar.

![The timer card during a short break: 02:23 BREAK, “Stand up, look far away.”, Back at 09:10, Round 1 of 4, 25m focused, with a Skip break button.](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/assets-static/img/pomodoro-short-break.webp)

*A short break after round 1: the ring drains and the card says when you’re back.*

### Ambient sounds

Nine background sounds for focus, from the speaker button on the timer card, with a volume slider:

| Noise | Nature |
| --- | --- |
| White noise: a steady hiss | Rain: gentle rainfall |
| Pink noise: soft and balanced | Ocean: rolling waves |
| Brown noise: deep and warm | Stream: flowing water |
|   | Wind: a soft breeze |
|   | Fireplace: a crackling fire |
|   | Forest: birds and rustling |

The sounds are generated in your browser, so nothing is streamed. They loop seamlessly, fade in and out, crossfade when you switch, and are matched in loudness so switching doesn’t jump in volume.

### Focus statistics

Every stay in Single Task Focus is recorded as a session: its focus time without pauses or breaks, its deep focus, its pauses, the tasks you completed and the filter you worked from. Sessions shorter than two minutes are not kept. **Statistics › Focus** shows them by **day**, **week** or **month**; the arrows step back and forward.

![Focus statistics for last week: 8h 02m focus time with a 1h 30m daily goal met on 2 of 7 days, 7h 12m deep focus, 8 sessions, 9 tasks completed in focus, a bar per day and the sessions list.](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/assets-static/img/focus-statistics-week.webp)

*A week of focus: totals, a bar per day with the goal line, and every session.*

- **Four numbers:** focus time, deep focus (and its share of focus time), sessions (average and longest) and tasks completed in focus, each compared with the period before.
- **Deep focus** counts stretches of 25 minutes or more without a pause.
- **Daily goal (optional):** 1h, 1h 30m, 2h, 3h or 4h of focus a day. It draws a line on the chart and counts the days you met it.
- **Charts:** the day view is a timeline of focus stretches and pauses; week and month show a bar per day, split into deep and other focus. Click a bar to open that day.
- **Every session**, grouped by day, with a focus/pause strip, the tasks completed (with quadrant colours) and the filter used. Delete one with a confirmation and five seconds to undo; completed tasks stay completed.

The Statistics page also has task statistics (completed tasks over time and by quadrant), an active-day streak, achievements and a points-based level.

### Mobile and installable

The app runs in your phone’s browser with a layout made for touch:

- quadrants as stacked cards with large task rows;
- a bottom bar to jump to a quadrant, turn on Single Task Focus and add a task;
- gestures: swipe right to complete, swipe left to snooze to tomorrow, press and hold for more options;
- a full-screen Single Task Focus with the same Pomodoro cycle; swipe sideways to move between tasks.

Add it to your home screen from the browser’s share or menu button and it opens in its own window, like an app. There is no separate App Store or Google Play app, and it needs an internet connection.

![The app on a 390-pixel-wide phone screen: the Do First card with five tasks and the bottom bar with Do, Sched, Deleg, Back and Add.](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/assets-static/img/mobile-matrix-390.webp)

*On a phone (390 px wide).*

### Keyboard shortcuts

Most of the app can be driven from the keyboard. The essentials:

| Keys | Action |
| --- | --- |
| `↑` `↓` `←` `→` | Move between tasks and quadrants (also `J` `K` `H` `L`) |
| `1`–`4` | Move to Do First, Schedule, Delegate or Backlog |
| `Space` | Complete |
| `Enter` | Open in Single Task Focus |
| `V` | Switch Clean / Classic |
| `P` · `B` | Pause · start or skip a break (in focus) |
| `?` | Show all shortcuts |

See the [complete keyboard shortcut reference](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/keyboard-shortcuts/).

### Display and settings

- **Light and dark themes**, from the sun button in the header.
- **Density:** compact, default or comfortable rows.
- **Show tags** (your other labels on each task) and **nest subtasks** inside their parent, both in Settings › Display.
- **Confetti effects** when you complete tasks, if you like them.
- **Accounts:** sign up with email and password or with Google.

### Privacy and your data

You connect Todoist on Todoist’s own authorisation page, so the app never sees your Todoist password. It asks Todoist for read and write access to your data (the scopes `data:read_write`, `data:delete` and `task:add`). Requests to Todoist go through the app’s server.

| In Todoist, the app… | What |
| --- | --- |
| Reads | Your active tasks, projects, labels, saved filters (and the tasks they match), and task comments. |
| Writes, when you act | Quadrant labels on tasks; completing and reopening (Undo); new names; due dates and deadlines; new tasks; comments you add, edit or delete, including focus notes; a new label if you create one in the label picker. |
| Writes, if you turn it on | Auto-prioritize changes the quadrant label of tasks nearing their due date to `do`, on a schedule. |
| Never | Imports or copies your task list into a separate database. |

**What the app stores:** your login, your Todoist connection and access token, and what its own features create: task completion history and statistics, streaks and achievements, focus sessions, daily reviews, notes and goals, filter presets, preferences and subscription records. Some display choices, such as Clean or Classic, are kept only in your browser.

**Leaving:** revoke access any time in Todoist’s settings under Integrations. To remove everything the app stores, open the account menu, choose **Delete Account** and type `DELETE` to confirm. Your tasks in Todoist are not affected. Deleting the account doesn’t cancel a Gumroad subscription; manage that from your Gumroad library.

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## Frequently asked questions

> Answers about Eisenhower Matrix for Todoist: using an Eisenhower Matrix with Todoist, pricing and the free trial, what it changes in Todoist, labels and filters, subtasks, mobile, privacy and deleting your data.

Source: https://eisenhowertodoist.com/faq/ · Last updated: 2026-09-28

Short, factual answers about Eisenhower Matrix for Todoist: how it works with your Todoist tasks, what it costs, what it changes and what it stores. If your question is not here, email [ylondonba@gmail.com](mailto:ylondonba@gmail.com).

### About the app

#### What is Eisenhower Matrix for Todoist?

It is a web app that connects to your Todoist account and shows your tasks in the four quadrants of the Eisenhower Matrix: Do First, Schedule, Delegate and Backlog. It adds a daily review, a Today’s focus list, a Single Task Focus mode with a Pomodoro timer and ambient sounds, and focus statistics. Your tasks stay in Todoist.

#### Can I use an Eisenhower Matrix with my Todoist tasks?

Yes. Connect your Todoist account to Eisenhower Matrix for Todoist and your existing tasks appear in the four quadrants. There is nothing to import or copy: the app reads your tasks live from Todoist and saves each task’s quadrant back to Todoist as a label. The [step-by-step guide](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/todoist-eisenhower-matrix/) shows how.

#### Is it made by Todoist?

No. It is an independent app and is not created by, affiliated with, or supported by Todoist. It connects through Todoist’s official OAuth authorisation and is listed in [Todoist’s integrations directory](https://www.todoist.com/integrations/apps/eisenhower-matrix).

#### Who is it for, and who is it not for?

It is for people who already manage their tasks in Todoist and want to see them by urgency and importance, plan each day in a few minutes and work on one task at a time. It is not for people who don’t use Todoist, because it has no task list of its own, and it is not an offline or native mobile app.

### Pricing and trial

#### How much does it cost? Is there a free trial?

New accounts get a 7-day free trial with full access and no credit card required. After the trial there are two plans: Monthly at $4.99 per month, which you can cancel any time, or Lifetime access for a one-time payment of $19.90. Payments are handled by Gumroad. There is no free plan after the trial.

#### What happens when the trial ends?

The app shows the plans instead of the matrix until you choose one. Nothing happens to your tasks or labels in Todoist, and you can still delete your account and its data from that screen.

#### How do I manage or cancel the monthly plan?

Subscriptions are sold through Gumroad, so you manage them from your Gumroad library. Deleting your account in the app does not cancel a Gumroad subscription.

### Todoist, labels and filters

#### Does it change my Todoist tasks or labels?

Only when you do something in the app, or when you turn on Auto-prioritize. Putting a task in a quadrant adds a label to it in Todoist (do, schedule, delegate or backlog) and removes its previous quadrant label; your other labels are kept. Completing, renaming, setting a due date or deadline, adding a task, and writing a comment or focus note make the same change in Todoist. Auto-prioritize, if you turn it on, moves tasks into Do First by changing the same label. The app does not import or duplicate your tasks.

#### How are quadrants stored?

As ordinary Todoist labels on each task: do for Do First, schedule for Schedule, delegate for Delegate and backlog for Backlog. Matching ignores upper and lower case. A task has one quadrant at a time, and tasks without one of these labels wait under Categorize until you sort them. Because the labels live in Todoist, you can also use them there, for example in a Todoist filter such as @do.

#### What happens to tasks without a quadrant label?

They are not in a quadrant yet. The Categorize button in the header shows how many there are and lets you sort them one at a time with the keys 1 to 4, going back with the left arrow or skipping with the right arrow.

#### Does it work with my Todoist filters?

Yes. The filters you saved in Todoist appear under From Todoist in the Saved menu above the matrix. Applying one shows the tasks that filter matches, sorted into quadrants. They are read-only in the app; you create and edit them in Todoist. The app also has its own filters by project, label, priority and due date, which you can save as presets.

#### Does it use Todoist priorities (P1 to P4)?

Yes, as information. Each task shows its Todoist priority, you can filter by P1 to P4, and the daily review uses priority to suggest focus tasks. The quadrant is separate: sorting a task into a quadrant does not change its priority.

#### Does it work with subtasks and recurring tasks?

Yes. Subtasks can be shown inside their parent task (Settings, Nest subtasks) or hidden with the Hide subtasks filter. Recurring tasks work too, with two differences: completing a recurring task can’t be undone from the app, and the swipe-to-snooze gesture on mobile asks you to reschedule recurring tasks in Todoist.

### Privacy and your data

#### What Todoist data does the app access?

When you connect, you approve access on Todoist’s own authorisation page, so the app never sees your Todoist password. It reads your active tasks, projects, labels, saved filters and task comments so it can show and filter them, and it writes the changes you make in the app. Requests to Todoist go through the app’s server, and your Todoist access token is stored with your account.

#### What data does the app store about me?

Your login details, your Todoist connection and access token, and the data the app’s own features create: task completion history and statistics, streaks and achievements, focus sessions, daily reviews, notes and goals, filter presets, preferences and subscription records. Some display choices, such as Clean or Classic view, are kept only in your browser.

#### How do I disconnect Todoist or delete my data?

You can revoke the app’s access at any time in your Todoist settings, under Integrations. To remove everything the app stores, open the account menu in the app, choose Delete Account and type DELETE to confirm. This permanently deletes your account, Todoist connection, statistics, focus sessions, notes and preferences. Your tasks inside Todoist are not affected. Deleting the account does not cancel a Gumroad subscription; manage that from your Gumroad library.

### Using the app

#### Does it work on mobile? Is there an app?

Yes, in the browser. The app has a mobile layout with a bottom action bar, swipe gestures and a full-screen focus view, and you can add it to your home screen. There is no separate native app in the App Store or Google Play.

#### Does it work offline?

No. Tasks are read from and saved to Todoist live, so the app needs an internet connection.

#### Can it prioritise tasks automatically? Does it use AI?

Partly. Auto-prioritize uses a plain due-date rule, no AI: once a night it moves tasks due within a number of days you choose into Do First, and can include tasks due today and overdue tasks. Optional AI quadrant suggestions (off by default) propose a quadrant for each task when you sort; you accept, change or skip each one, and nothing moves until you accept. Only after you turn them on are the titles, due dates, priorities, project names and labels of the tasks you are sorting sent to Anthropic, an AI provider; notes and comments are never sent. The daily review’s suggestions use a plain rule (due today, then Do First, then Todoist priority).

#### Does it have a Pomodoro timer?

Yes. Single Task Focus has a Pomodoro cycle of focus rounds, short breaks and a long break after each set. The presets are Classic (25, 5 and 15 minutes), Deep (50, 10 and 20) and Light (15, 3 and 10), or you can set your own lengths and 2 to 6 rounds per set. Breaks can start automatically, and focus time is recorded in Statistics.

#### Can I use it with just the keyboard?

Mostly, yes. The arrow keys move around the matrix, 1 to 4 move a task to a quadrant, Space completes it, Enter opens Single Task Focus and V switches between the Clean and Classic views. Press ? in the app, or see the [keyboard shortcuts page](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/keyboard-shortcuts/), for the full list.

#### Which languages does it support?

The app’s interface is in English. Your tasks can be in any language, since they are your own Todoist tasks. There is also a [guide to the method in Turkish](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/tr/eisenhower-matrisi/).

#### How do I get help or suggest a feature?

Email [ylondonba@gmail.com](mailto:ylondonba@gmail.com). On desktop, the app also has a help button and a feature request button in the bottom left corner.

More detail: [every feature, explained](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/features/) · [using the Eisenhower Matrix with Todoist](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/todoist-eisenhower-matrix/) · [what the Eisenhower Matrix is](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/eisenhower-matrix/).

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## How to use the Eisenhower Matrix with Todoist

> Use the Eisenhower Matrix on your existing Todoist tasks: connect Todoist, sort tasks into Do First, Schedule, Delegate and Backlog (saved as Todoist labels), then plan each day and focus one task at a time.

Source: https://eisenhowertodoist.com/todoist-eisenhower-matrix/ · Last updated: 2026-09-28

You can use the Eisenhower Matrix on your existing Todoist tasks without moving them anywhere. [Eisenhower Matrix for Todoist](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/) is a web app that connects to your Todoist account, shows your tasks in four quadrants (**Do First**, **Schedule**, **Delegate**, **Backlog**) and saves each task’s quadrant back to Todoist as a label. Your tasks stay in Todoist; the app is a prioritised view on top of them, and it is [listed in Todoist’s integrations directory](https://www.todoist.com/integrations/apps/eisenhower-matrix).

![Todoist tasks in the Clean view of Eisenhower Matrix for Todoist: Do First, Schedule, Delegate and Backlog, each grouped by Late, Today, This week and Later.](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/assets-static/img/clean-matrix-view.webp)

*Todoist tasks in the four quadrants (Clean view, demo data).*

### The five steps

1. **Connect your Todoist account** Create an account, click Connect with Todoist and approve access on Todoist’s own authorisation page. Your active tasks load into the matrix.
2. **Sort your tasks into quadrants** Open Categorize and press 1, 2, 3 or 4 for Do First, Schedule, Delegate or Backlog. Each choice is saved to the task in Todoist as a label.
3. **Plan the day with the daily review** Each morning, clear what carried over from yesterday, then pick up to three tasks for Today’s focus.
4. **Work one task at a time** Select a task and press Enter to open Single Task Focus, with a Pomodoro timer, notes and ambient sounds.
5. **Prune once a week** Open Delegate and Backlog, delete what no longer matters, promote what has become important and give Schedule tasks a date.

### 1. Connect your Todoist account

1. Open [eisenhowertodoist.com](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/) and create an account with email and password, or sign in with Google.
2. Click **Connect with Todoist**. You are sent to Todoist’s own authorisation page (OAuth), where you approve access. You never give the app your Todoist password.
3. After you approve, you return to the app and your active Todoist tasks load.

New accounts start with a 7-day free trial with full access and no credit card required. After that it is $4.99 per month, or $19.90 once for lifetime access. See [pricing in the FAQ](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/faq/#pricing).

### 2. Quadrants are ordinary Todoist labels

The app does not keep a separate copy of your priorities. A task’s quadrant is a Todoist label on the task itself:

| Quadrant | Meaning | Todoist label |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Do First | Urgent and important | `do` |
| Schedule | Important, not urgent | `schedule` |
| Delegate | Urgent, not important | `delegate` |
| Backlog | Neither urgent nor important | `backlog` |

- A task has one quadrant at a time. Moving it replaces the old quadrant label; your other labels are left alone.
- Label matching ignores case, so a task you label `@Do` in Todoist shows up in Do First too.
- Because the labels live in Todoist, the sorting is visible in the Todoist apps as well, and you can use the labels in Todoist, for example in a filter with the query `@do`.
- Tasks without one of these labels are not in a quadrant yet. The **Categorize** button in the header shows how many there are.

### 3. Sort your tasks into quadrants

Click **Categorize** to go through unsorted tasks one at a time. For each task press `1` Do First, `2` Schedule, `3` Delegate or `4` Backlog; `←` goes back and `→` skips. The due date and priority are shown so you can decide quickly. **Recategorize** lets you re-sort tasks that already have a quadrant.

On the matrix itself, select a task and press `1`–`4` to move it (with Undo), or `Ctrl`/`⌘` + click several tasks and move them together. `N` adds a new task straight into the quadrant you are in.

There are two layouts. **Clean** (the default) is a keyboard-friendly list per quadrant; **Classic** is the traditional grid of four cards. Press `V` to switch, and `?` in the Clean view for the full list of [keyboard shortcuts](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/keyboard-shortcuts/).

> Let dates do some of the sorting
>
> Turn on **Auto-prioritize** in Settings and once a night tasks due within a number of days you choose move into Do First. You can also include tasks due today and overdue tasks.

### 4. Your daily workflow

#### Morning: the daily review

The daily review is a short morning plan in three steps: **Clear**, **Choose**, **Commit**. First you clear what carried over: for each overdue task you can complete it, move it to today, move it to another quadrant, or skip it for now. Then you choose up to three tasks for today from Do First and Schedule. The app marks a few as “Suggested” using a plain rule (due today first, then Do First, then Todoist priority); the choice is yours. It opens by itself once a day, starting the day after you sign up, and the **Daily Review** button in the header opens it any time.

![The daily review’s first step, Clear: two tasks carried over from yesterday, each with Today and more options.](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/assets-static/img/daily-review-clear.webp)

*Clear: decide what to do with tasks that carried over.*

#### During the day: Today’s focus

The tasks you picked appear in a **Today’s focus** panel above the matrix, numbered in the order you chose them, with their quadrant, due date, priority and a progress ring. Completing one there completes it in Todoist.

#### Deep work: Single Task Focus and the Pomodoro cycle

Select a task and press `Enter` to open it in **Single Task Focus**: one task on screen, and the rest of your matrix (under the current filter) waiting in a queue from Do First to Backlog, with today’s focus tasks first. From there you can:

- run a **Pomodoro cycle**: Classic (25 min focus, 5 min break, 15 min long break), Deep (50/10/20), Light (15/3/10) or your own lengths;
- play an **ambient sound**: white, pink or brown noise, rain, ocean, stream, wind, fireplace or forest;
- write a **note** for the task, which is saved to the Todoist task as a comment;
- complete the task with `Space`; the next one slides in and `U` undoes for five seconds.

![Single Task Focus on “Prepare Q4 budget review” with a note open and the Pomodoro timer showing 13:36 left in round 1 of 4.](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/assets-static/img/single-task-focus-pomodoro.webp)

*Single Task Focus: one task, a note that syncs to Todoist, and the Pomodoro timer.*

Focus time is recorded. The Statistics page shows focus time, deep focus (stretches of 25 minutes or more without a pause), sessions, tasks completed in focus and an optional daily goal. See [focus statistics](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/features/#statistics).

### 5. Weekly pruning

Once a week, open the Delegate and Backlog quadrants. Delete what no longer matters, promote what has become important, and check that Schedule tasks have dates. Filters by project, label, priority and due date, your saved presets and your saved Todoist filters help you review one area at a time.

### What changes in your Todoist account

Only what you do in the app, plus Auto-prioritize if you turn it on. Sorting a task adds or replaces its quadrant label. Completing, renaming, setting due dates or deadlines, adding tasks and writing comments or focus notes are written to Todoist as the matching Todoist changes. Auto-prioritize moves tasks into Do First by changing the same label. Nothing is imported or duplicated. If you stop using the app, the quadrant labels simply stay on your tasks. The [FAQ](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/faq/#privacy) covers what data the app stores and how to disconnect.

---

## What is the Eisenhower Matrix?

> The Eisenhower Matrix sorts tasks by urgency and importance into four quadrants: Do First, Schedule, Delegate and Backlog. How to decide, a checklist, worked examples, common mistakes, and using it with Todoist.

Source: https://eisenhowertodoist.com/eisenhower-matrix/ · Last updated: 2026-09-28

The Eisenhower Matrix is a simple way to prioritise tasks by asking two questions about each one: **is it urgent, and is it important?** The answers place every task in one of four quadrants: **Do First** (urgent and important), **Schedule** (important, not urgent), **Delegate** (urgent, not important) and **Backlog** (neither). Each quadrant comes with a default action, so the matrix tells you not just what matters but what to do next.

### The four quadrants

The matrix is a two-by-two grid. Urgency runs across the top, importance down the side. The colours below are the ones [Eisenhower Matrix for Todoist](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/features/) uses for each quadrant.

- **Do First** (Urgent · Important): Do it now, one at a time. Examples: A client deliverable due today; A bug that blocks customers; A bill due tomorrow.
- **Schedule** (Not urgent · Important): Give it a date or a time block. Examples: Planning next quarter; Exercise and health check-ups; Writing the proposal before it is due.
- **Delegate** (Urgent · Not important): Hand it off, batch it, or say no. Examples: Meetings where you only listen; Routine requests and forms; Ordering supplies, booking travel.
- **Backlog** (Not urgent · Not important): Drop it, or park it for later. Examples: Reorganising files that work fine; “Someday” ideas; Aimless scrolling.

#### Do First: urgent and important

These tasks have a near deadline and a real cost if they slip: a client deliverable due today, a bug that blocks users, a bill that is due. Do them now, one at a time. If this quadrant is always full, that is a sign that Schedule work is being left until it turns into an emergency.

#### Schedule: important, not urgent

This is where most long-term value lives: planning the week, writing the proposal before it is due, exercise, learning, fixing the process that keeps breaking. Nothing forces these tasks to happen, so give them a date or a time block. Many people find the matrix worth using mainly because it makes this quadrant visible.

#### Delegate: urgent, not important

These tasks feel pressing because someone is waiting, but they do not advance your own goals: many meetings, routine requests, some messages. Hand them to someone better placed, automate them, batch them into one short slot, or say no. If you work alone, “delegate” often means “do it quickly and with minimum effort”.

#### Backlog: neither urgent nor important

Ideas, someday items and low-value busywork. Keep them out of your daily list. Review the backlog now and then: promote what has become important and delete the rest. Deleting is a valid outcome.

### Where the name comes from

The method is named after Dwight D. Eisenhower. In a 1954 speech he said, quoting a former college president, that he had two kinds of problems, the urgent and the important, and that the urgent are not important and the important are never urgent. Stephen Covey later turned the idea into a two-by-two “time management matrix” in *The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People* (1989). That grid is what most people now call the Eisenhower Matrix, the Eisenhower Box or the urgent–important matrix.

### How to tell urgent from important

The two axes are independent, and mixing them up is the most common reason the matrix stops helping. Ask them separately.

**Urgent is about time.**

A task is urgent if waiting has a cost soon: it has a hard deadline in the next day or two, or something breaks if it is not done. “Someone asked for it” is not the same as “it is urgent”.

**Important is about outcomes.**

A task is important if it contributes to your goals, your responsibilities or your values, whoever asked for it. How loud a task is says nothing about its importance.

> When in doubt, the answer is no
>
> If you hesitate on either question, treat the answer as “no”. That keeps Do First small, which is the point: a short Do First list is one you can actually finish.

### A 30-second decision checklist

Run each task through these questions, in order. Most tasks are decided by the second one.

- **Is there a real deadline in the next day or two, with a cost if it slips?** If yes, it is urgent.
- **Does it move a goal, a commitment, your health or a relationship forward?** If yes, it is important.
- **Would you still do it if nobody asked?** If yes, that is another sign it is important.
- **Could someone else do it well enough?** If it is urgent but not important, that is a Delegate task.
- **Would anyone notice in a month if it disappeared?** If not, it belongs in the Backlog, or in the bin.

### Worked examples

The same kind of task can land in different quadrants depending on its deadline and why it matters to you. These are typical calls.

| Task | Urgent? | Important? | Quadrant and action |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fix the report a client needs by 5 pm today | Yes, today | Yes, a commitment | Do First: do it now |
| Checkout is failing for customers | Yes | Yes | Do First: drop other work |
| Draft next quarter’s plan, due in three weeks | Not yet | Yes | Schedule: block two hours this week |
| Book the dentist check-up you keep postponing | No | Yes, health | Schedule: pick a date now |
| A weekly status meeting where you only listen | It starts at 10:00 | Low | Delegate: ask for the notes instead |
| A colleague asks you to find a file they could search for | It feels urgent | Not for your goals | Delegate: point them to the folder |
| Reply to a newsletter survey | No | No | Backlog: skip or delete |
| Reorganise your browser bookmarks | No | No | Backlog: leave it; revisit monthly |

Notice the Schedule rows. They are the tasks that quietly turn into Do First emergencies if they never get a date.

### A simple daily routine

1. **Collect** Get every open task into one list, the one you already use.
2. **Sort** Put each task in a quadrant. Decide quickly; you can move it later.
3. **Act by quadrant** Work through Do First, give Schedule tasks a date, hand off or batch Delegate tasks, and leave the Backlog alone.
4. **Review every morning** Look at what carried over from yesterday, re-sort anything that changed, and pick the two or three tasks that matter most today.
5. **Prune every week** Open Delegate and Backlog. Delete what no longer matters and promote what has become important.

### Common mistakes

- **Everything is Do First.** If more than a handful of tasks are urgent and important, you are rating urgency by feeling. Re-check the deadlines.
- **Confusing urgent with important.** A ringing phone is urgent, not automatically important. Loud tasks tend to crowd out valuable ones.
- **Never scheduling Schedule.** Important-but-not-urgent tasks without a date quietly become urgent later. Give them a slot.
- **Treating Delegate as “someone else’s problem”.** A delegated task still needs a clear owner and a follow-up.
- **Hoarding the backlog.** A backlog that only grows becomes noise. Prune it.
- **Sorting once and never again.** Priorities change as deadlines approach. The matrix works when it is reviewed, ideally every day.
- **Keeping the matrix apart from your to-do list.** A matrix on paper or a whiteboard drifts out of date within days. It works best on top of the list you already use.

### The Eisenhower Matrix in Todoist

If your tasks already live in Todoist, you don’t need a second list. [Eisenhower Matrix for Todoist](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/) is a web app that connects to your Todoist account and puts the matrix on top of the tasks you already have:

- **Your Todoist tasks, in four quadrants.** Nothing is imported or copied; the app reads your tasks live from Todoist.
- **Sorting is saved in Todoist.** Each task’s quadrant is an ordinary Todoist label (`do`, `schedule`, `delegate` or `backlog`), so you see it in the Todoist apps too.
- **The routine above, built in.** A morning daily review, a Today’s focus list of up to three tasks, Single Task Focus with a Pomodoro timer, and focus statistics.

![Eisenhower Matrix for Todoist, Clean view: Todoist tasks in Do First, Schedule, Delegate and Backlog, grouped by Late, Today and This week.](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/assets-static/img/clean-matrix-view.webp)

*The Clean view of Eisenhower Matrix for Todoist, with demo tasks. Urgent is on the left, important on top.*

Read the [step-by-step guide to using the Eisenhower Matrix with Todoist](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/todoist-eisenhower-matrix/), browse [every feature](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/features/), or check the [FAQ](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/faq/) for pricing and data questions.

---

## Keyboard shortcuts

> Every keyboard shortcut in Eisenhower Matrix for Todoist: move around the matrix, sort tasks with 1–4, complete, rename, set dates, and run Single Task Focus and the Pomodoro timer. Plus the mobile gestures.

Source: https://eisenhowertodoist.com/keyboard-shortcuts/ · Last updated: 2026-09-28

Eisenhower Matrix for Todoist can be run almost entirely from the keyboard: move around the matrix, sort tasks into quadrants with `1`–`4`, complete with `Space`, and work through a queue in Single Task Focus. In the app, press `?` in the Clean view to see the list.

### Matrix (Clean view)

Click a row first, or press `↓` to start; a ring shows the highlighted row. On a Mac, `⌘` works wherever `Ctrl` is listed.

**Move around**

| Keys | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| `↑` `↓` or `J` `K` | Move within a quadrant; at the end, continue into the quadrant below |
| `←` `→` or `H` `L` | Jump to the quadrant beside |
| `E` | Expand the quadrant to full width; `E` or `Esc` returns |
| `V` | Switch between the Clean and Classic views (works in both) |
| `?` | Show or hide the full shortcut list |
| `Esc` | Close the expanded quadrant, or clear the highlighted row |

**Act on the highlighted row**

| Keys | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| `Space` | Complete the task (with Undo) |
| `1`–`4` | Move to Do First, Schedule, Delegate or Backlog, with Undo. Moves every selected task if the row is selected |
| `Enter` | Open the task in Single Task Focus |
| `D` | Set the due date |
| `Shift` `D` | Set the deadline |
| `C` | Open the task’s Todoist comments |
| `R` or `F2` | Rename the task (you can also double-click the title) |
| `X` | Select or deselect the task |
| `Shift` `X` | Select a range in the quadrant, from the last task you selected with X to this one |
| `N` | Add a new task to this quadrant |
| `Delete` or `Backspace` | Delete the task, with Undo for 6 seconds. A recurring task or a task with subtasks asks first |

**Mouse**

| Action | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| `Ctrl` + click | Select tasks (`⌘` + click on a Mac), then move them with `1`–`4` or the bar at the bottom |
| Click a quadrant header | Fold or unfold the quadrant |
| Double-click a quadrant header | Expand the quadrant |
| Double-click a task title | Rename the task |

**While renaming or adding a task**

| Keys | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| `Enter` | Save the new name, or add the new task (clicking away also saves a name) |
| `Esc` | Cancel: keep the old name, or discard the new task |

### Categorize

The Categorize sheet steps through tasks that have no quadrant yet. Holding a number key sorts only one task, never the ones after it.

**Sorting unsorted tasks**

| Keys | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| `1`–`4` | Sort the task into Do First, Schedule, Delegate or Backlog |
| `←` | Back to the previous task |
| `→` | Skip this task for now |

### Single Task Focus and the Pomodoro timer

Press `Enter` on a task to open it in Single Task Focus. These keys take priority over the matrix shortcuts underneath.

**In Single Task Focus**

| Keys | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| `Space` | Complete the task; the next task in the queue slides in |
| `U` | Undo the completion (for five seconds) |
| `←` `→` | Previous or next task in the queue |
| `P` | Pause or resume; during a break, or when it is over, start the next round |
| `B` | Start a break when a round is done, skip a running break, or start the next round |
| `E` | Open or close the note (saved to Todoist as a comment when it closes) |
| `R` | Show or hide related tasks |
| `/` or `⌘` `K` / `Ctrl` `K` | Search the tasks in this queue |
| `Esc` | Close search, then the note; otherwise exit focus with a session summary |

**In the search palette**

| Keys | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| `↑` `↓` | Move through the results |
| `Enter` | Focus the chosen task (the timer keeps running) |
| `Esc` | Close search |

![Single Task Focus with its key hints along the bottom: arrows to navigate, Space to complete, R related, E notes, P pause, Esc exit.](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/assets-static/img/single-task-focus-pomodoro.webp)

*The key hints are always shown at the bottom of the focus card.*

### Mobile gestures

On a phone there is no keyboard, so the main actions are gestures. A one-time card in the app teaches the first three.

**Touch**

| Gesture | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| Swipe a task right | Complete it |
| Swipe a task left | Snooze it to tomorrow (recurring tasks are rescheduled in Todoist instead) |
| Press and hold a task | More options: complete, move to a quadrant, due date, deadline, open in Todoist |
| Swipe sideways in focus | Previous or next task in Single Task Focus |

### Tips

- Shortcuts are ignored while you type in a field, and while a dialog or menu is open, so they never fire by accident.
- The hint strip above the Clean matrix can be hidden once you know the keys; `?` and the keyboard button still open the full list.
- A fast morning routine: open the daily review, then `Enter` on your first focus task, `Space` to complete, and let the queue carry you to the next one.

More about each feature on the [features page](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/features/).

---

## Changelog

> What’s new in Eisenhower Matrix for Todoist: the Pomodoro cycle, focus statistics, Single Task Focus v2, rename in place, compact filters, the Clean view, the daily review and more, with dates.

Source: https://eisenhowertodoist.com/changelog/ · Last updated: 2026-09-28

What changed in Eisenhower Matrix for Todoist, newest first. Dates come from the project’s commit history. Small fixes and internal work are left out. For how each feature works today, see the [features page](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/features/).

### September 2026

#### Pomodoro cycle in Single Task Focus (28 September 2026)

The timer now runs a real cycle: focus round, break, next round, with a long break after each set.

- Presets Classic (25/5/15), Deep (50/10/20) and Light (15/3/10), or custom lengths and 2–6 rounds per set.
- Breaks start on their own; focus rounds wait for you. Both are switches, plus an optional chime.
- `B` starts or skips a break and starts the next round; `P` pauses.
- Breaks count as pauses, so focus time and deep focus leave them out.

#### Focus statistics: day, week and month (28 September 2026)

Statistics › Focus is rebuilt around sessions.

- Focus time, deep focus (25+ minutes without a pause), sessions and tasks completed in focus, each compared with the period before.
- An optional daily focus goal, shown as a line on the chart and as days met.
- Every session listed by day, with its pauses, tasks and filter; delete with five seconds to undo.

#### Single Task Focus v2 (28 September 2026)

A new focus view built around one queue: the tasks your current filter shows, in matrix order, with today’s focus first.

- `Space` completes and the next task slides in; `U` undoes for five seconds.
- Inline notes save as you type and go to Todoist as one comment.
- Search the queue with `/` or `⌘`/`Ctrl`+`K`; a summary when you exit.

#### Ambient sounds, rebuilt (28 September 2026)

Nine sounds generated in the browser: calmer, seamless loops that are matched in loudness and crossfade when you switch. They also start more reliably across browsers and sit at a gentler default volume.

#### Focus timers keep running in the background (28 September 2026)

The timer stays right when the browser tab is in the background, on desktop and mobile, and the minimised timer bar opens the timer when clicked.

#### Rename tasks in place (28 September 2026)

Double-click a title, or press `R` or `F2`, to rename a task without leaving the matrix. The change goes to Todoist with Undo. New tasks now keep the due date and deadline you picked in every time zone.

#### Compact filters (28 September 2026)

On desktop the filters are one toolbar row instead of a panel.

- Project and label are searchable lists: type, pick several, remove with Backspace.
- The All filters panel brings in your Todoist filters, with the date filter first and one save button.
- Smoother motion when filters change.

#### Undo for completing and moving tasks (28 September 2026)

Completing a task can be undone from its notification, which reopens it in Todoist. Every move between quadrants offers Undo too.

#### Fixes (28 September 2026)

- Today’s focus no longer marks tasks as done when a Todoist filter hides them.
- Single Task Focus no longer fails when the queue is briefly empty.
- Row actions at the bottom right of the matrix are clickable again.
- Classic view: quadrant cards in a row share their height.

#### The Clean view, now the default (27 September 2026)

A new matrix layout: a quiet cross with urgency across and importance down, task rows grouped by date, and a keyboard-first design.

- A shortcut strip above the matrix and a full list on `?`; the strip can be hidden.
- Motion for completing, moving, expanding and folding quadrants.
- Clean is the default for everyone; Classic stays one key (`V`) away.

#### A friendlier first run (27 September 2026)

New accounts get a welcome card, a short starter sort of their most pressing tasks, a guided walk through the matrix and a few tips on day two. The daily review no longer opens on the day you sign up.

#### A warmer look (27 September 2026)

A warm neutral palette with calmer quadrant colours, a new tab title and a matrix favicon.

#### Daily review: Clear → Choose → Commit (26 September 2026)

The morning review is redesigned in three steps: clear what carried over, choose up to three tasks, commit to the plan.

#### Delete your account and data (26 September 2026)

A new Delete Account option removes everything the app stores about you, after you type DELETE to confirm. Your Todoist tasks are not touched.

#### Faster (26 September 2026)

Fewer requests when you complete tasks and a quicker first load.

### August 2026

#### Auto-prioritize for more accounts (4 August 2026)

Auto-prioritize now also works for accounts connected with a Todoist API key, and reports the tasks it skipped.

#### Hide subtasks filter (3 August 2026)

Show only top-level tasks. The setting is saved with your filter presets.

#### Presets and Todoist filters in one row (3 August 2026)

Your saved presets and your Todoist filters now sit together, with consistent separators.

#### A richer daily review and Today’s focus bar (3 August 2026)

The review shows yesterday’s recap and suggested picks, and Today’s focus stays in a persistent bar above the matrix. Completed recurring focus tasks are marked as done.

#### Smoother with long lists (3 August 2026)

Task rows render only when on screen, and the first load of the matrix is smaller.

### July 2026

#### Daily review (21 July 2026)

A new morning plan-your-day ritual: handle what carried over, then pick today’s focus. Recurring tasks can be rescheduled inside the review.

#### Sturdier loading (21 July 2026)

Better handling of slow loads, app updates and Todoist outages.

#### Simpler statistics (14 July 2026)

The Matrix insight and balance cards were simplified, then removed from Statistics.

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## Eisenhower Matrisi nedir, Todoist ile nasıl kullanılır?

> Eisenhower Matrisi görevleri aciliyet ve öneme göre dört bölgeye ayırır. Yöntemin mantığı, karar listesi, örnekler, sık yapılan hatalar ve Todoist görevlerinizle kullanımı.

Source: https://eisenhowertodoist.com/tr/eisenhower-matrisi/ · Language: Turkish · Last updated: 2026-09-28

Eisenhower Matrisi, her görev için iki soru sorarak öncelik belirlemenizi sağlayan basit bir yöntemdir: **Bu iş acil mi, önemli mi?** Cevaplara göre görev dört bölgeden birine düşer: **Hemen Yap** (acil ve önemli), **Planla** (önemli ama acil değil), **Devret** (acil ama önemli değil) ve **Beklet** (ikisi de değil). Görevleriniz Todoist’teyse, bu matrisi ayrı bir liste tutmadan doğrudan Todoist görevleriniz üzerinde kullanabilirsiniz.

### Dört bölge

Matris iki eksenli bir tablodur: aciliyet yatayda, önem dikeyde. Uygulamanın arayüzü İngilizce olduğu için bölgelerin uygulamadaki adlarını parantez içinde veriyoruz.

- **Hemen Yap (Do First)** (Acil · Önemli): Şimdi, tek tek yapın. Examples: Bugün teslim edilecek müşteri işi; Müşterileri engelleyen bir hata; Yarın son günü olan fatura.
- **Planla (Schedule)** (Acil değil · Önemli): Takvime bir tarih verin. Examples: Gelecek çeyreğin planı; Spor, sağlık kontrolü; Teklifi süresinden önce yazmak.
- **Devret (Delegate)** (Acil · Önemli değil): Başkasına verin, toplayın ya da hayır deyin. Examples: Sadece dinlediğiniz toplantılar; Rutin talepler ve formlar; Malzeme siparişi, rezervasyon.
- **Beklet (Backlog)** (Acil değil · Önemli değil): Bırakın ya da sonraya park edin. Examples: Çalışan dosyaları yeniden düzenlemek; “Bir gün” fikirleri; Amaçsız gezinme.

**Hemen Yap** bölgesindeki işleri tek tek, hemen bitirin. Bu bölge sürekli doluysa, Planla’daki işler ertelenip acil hâle geliyor demektir. **Planla** bölgesi uzun vadede en çok değeri üreten yerdir; ama kimse sizi zorlamadığı için bu işlere mutlaka bir tarih ya da zaman dilimi verin. **Devret** bölgesindeki işleri başkasına verin, otomatikleştirin ya da kısa bir zaman diliminde toplu hâlde halledin; tek başınıza çalışıyorsanız “en az eforla hızlıca bitir” anlamına gelir. **Beklet** bölgesini ara sıra gözden geçirin: önemli hâle gelenleri yukarı taşıyın, gerisini silin.

### Yöntemin kökeni

Yöntem adını ABD Başkanı Dwight D. Eisenhower’dan alır. Eisenhower 1954’teki bir konuşmasında, eski bir üniversite rektöründen alıntı yaparak iki tür sorunu olduğunu söyler: acil olanlar ve önemli olanlar; acil olanlar önemli değildir, önemli olanlar da hiçbir zaman acil değildir. Bugün bilinen iki eksenli tabloyu ise Stephen Covey, *Etkili İnsanların 7 Alışkanlığı* (1989) kitabında yaygınlaştırdı.

### Acil ile önemliyi nasıl ayırırım?

İki ekseni ayrı ayrı değerlendirmek yöntemin püf noktasıdır.

- **Yakın ve gerçek bir son tarih var mı?** Bir iki gün içinde, kaçarsa bedeli olan bir tarih varsa iş acildir.
- **Bir hedefe, sorumluluğa, sağlığınıza ya da bir ilişkiye katkısı var mı?** Varsa iş önemlidir.
- **Kimse istemese yine de yapar mıydınız?** Evet ise bu da önemli olduğunun işaretidir.
- **Başka biri yeterince iyi yapabilir mi?** Acil ama önemli değilse, bu bir Devret işidir.
- **Listeden kaybolsa bir ay içinde fark eden olur mu?** Olmazsa yeri Beklet bölgesi, belki de çöp kutusudur.

> Emin değilseniz cevap “hayır”dır
>
> Sorulardan birinde tereddüt ediyorsanız cevabı “hayır” sayın. Böylece Hemen Yap listesi küçük kalır; amaç da budur.

### Örnekler

| Görev | Acil mi? | Önemli mi? | Bölge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Müşterinin bugün 17.00’ye kadar beklediği rapordaki hatayı düzeltmek | Evet | Evet | Hemen Yap |
| Üç hafta sonra teslim edilecek çeyrek planını hazırlamak | Henüz değil | Evet | Planla |
| Ertelediğiniz diş hekimi randevusunu almak | Hayır | Evet, sağlık | Planla |
| Sadece dinlediğiniz haftalık durum toplantısı | Saat 10.00’da | Düşük | Devret |
| Tarayıcı yer imlerini yeniden düzenlemek | Hayır | Hayır | Beklet |

### Sık yapılan hatalar

- **Her şeyi Hemen Yap’a koymak.** Acil ve önemli iş sayısı bir avucu geçiyorsa, aciliyeti hisse göre ölçüyorsunuzdur.
- **Gürültülü işi önemli sanmak.** Çalan telefon acildir ama her zaman önemli değildir.
- **Planla bölgesine tarih vermemek.** Tarihsiz önemli işler bir gün acil olarak geri döner.
- **Bir kez sıralayıp bırakmak.** Son tarihler yaklaştıkça öncelikler değişir; matrisi her gün kısaca gözden geçirmek gerekir.
- **Matrisi yapılacaklar listesinden ayrı tutmak.** Kâğıttaki ya da tahtadaki matris kısa sürede eskir. En iyi sonuç, zaten kullandığınız listenin üzerinde çalışınca alınır.

### Todoist ile Eisenhower Matrisi

[Eisenhower Matrix for Todoist](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/), Todoist hesabınıza bağlanan ve görevlerinizi dört bölgede gösteren bir web uygulamasıdır. Görevler Todoist’te kalır; uygulama onların üzerinde öncelik sırasına göre bir görünüm sunar. Uygulama [Todoist’in entegrasyonlar dizininde](https://www.todoist.com/integrations/apps/eisenhower-matrix) listelenir, ancak Todoist tarafından geliştirilmemiştir ve Todoist ile bağlantılı değildir.

![Eisenhower Matrix for Todoist uygulamasının Clean görünümü: örnek görevler Do First, Schedule, Delegate ve Backlog bölgelerinde, Late, Today ve This week gruplarıyla.](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/assets-static/img/clean-matrix-view.webp)

*Uygulamanın Clean görünümü (örnek görevlerle). Arayüz İngilizcedir.*

1. **Bağlanın** E-posta ve şifreyle ya da Google hesabınızla kaydolun, ardından **Connect with Todoist** düğmesine basın. Todoist’in kendi yetkilendirme (OAuth) sayfasında erişime izin verirsiniz; uygulama Todoist şifrenizi hiçbir zaman görmez. Yeni hesaplar kredi kartı gerektirmeyen 7 günlük ücretsiz denemeyle başlar; sonrasında aylık 4,99 $ ya da tek seferlik 19,90 $ ile ömür boyu erişim seçenekleri vardır.
2. **Bölgeler Todoist’te etiket olarak saklanır** Bir görevin bölgesi, Todoist’teki görevin üzerinde bir etiket olarak durur: Hemen Yap için `do`, Planla için `schedule`, Devret için `delegate`, Beklet için `backlog`. Bir görevin aynı anda tek bir bölgesi olur; görevi taşıdığınızda eski bölge etiketi değişir, diğer etiketleriniz olduğu gibi kalır. Etiketler Todoist’te durduğu için sıralamanız Todoist uygulamalarında da görünür.
3. **Görevleri sıralayın** Henüz bölgesi olmayan görevler için üst çubuktaki **Categorize** düğmesini kullanın ve her görev için `1` (Hemen Yap), `2` (Planla), `3` (Devret) ya da `4` (Beklet) tuşuna basın. Matriste bir görevi `1`–`4` ile taşıyabilir, `Ctrl`/`⌘` + tıklama ile birden fazla görevi birlikte seçebilirsiniz. `V` tuşu sade liste görünümü (Clean) ile klasik dört kartlı görünüm (Classic) arasında geçiş yapar.
4. **Günü planlayın** Sabah gözden geçirmesi (Daily Review) üç adımdan oluşur: önce dünden kalan gecikmiş görevleri temizlersiniz (tamamlayın, bugüne alın, başka bölgeye taşıyın ya da şimdilik atlayın), sonra Hemen Yap ve Planla’dan bugün odaklanacağınız en fazla üç görevi seçer ve planı onaylarsınız. Seçtiğiniz görevler gün boyunca matrisin üstünde, Today’s focus panelinde durur.
5. **Tek göreve odaklanın** Bir görevi `Enter` ile açın; ekranda yalnızca o görev kalır, diğerleri bir kuyrukta bekler. Klasik (25/5/15 dk), Derin (50/10/20) ve Hafif (15/3/10) hazır ayarlarıyla ya da kendi sürelerinizle Pomodoro döngüsü çalıştırabilir; beyaz, pembe ve kahverengi gürültü, yağmur, okyanus, dere, rüzgâr, şömine ve orman sesleri açabilirsiniz. Aldığınız notlar Todoist’teki göreve yorum olarak kaydedilir. İstatistikler sayfası odak sürenizi, 25 dakika ve üzeri kesintisiz “derin odak” süresini ve isteğe bağlı günlük hedefinizi gösterir.

Uygulama tarayıcıda çalışır; telefonda da kullanılabilir ve ana ekrana eklenebilir. Çevrimdışı çalışmaz, çünkü görevler Todoist’ten canlı olarak okunur ve yazılır. Ayrıntılar için İngilizce [Todoist rehberine](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/todoist-eisenhower-matrix/), [özellik listesine](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/features/) ve [sık sorulan sorulara](https://eisenhowertodoist.com/faq/) bakabilirsiniz.

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## Privacy policy

> How Eisenhower Matrix for Todoist collects, uses and protects your information, and how to delete it.

Source: https://eisenhowertodoist.com/privacy/ · Last updated: 2026-10-03

How Eisenhower Matrix for Todoist handles your information.

### Your data

We only use the information needed to run the app, such as your email address and the Todoist access you approve. Your tasks stay in Todoist. We never see your Todoist password or your card details, and we do not sell your data.

### AI suggestions

AI category suggestions are off until you turn on “AI quadrant suggestions”. When you then ask for suggestions, the titles, due dates, priorities, project names and labels of the tasks you are sorting, plus the titles of some tasks you sorted earlier and of suggestions you corrected, are sent to Anthropic, an AI provider, to suggest a quadrant for each. Notes and comments are never sent. Your corrections are kept only in your browser. We store nothing about your tasks, only how many times you used suggestions and whether each suggestion was accepted, changed or skipped. You can turn this off at any time in Settings.

### How you use the app

We record which features you use (for example: opened Focus, connected Todoist, started a checkout) and where you came from (such as a campaign link or the referring site) to improve the app, and how long the app is open and in use (a number of seconds). Never your task content: no task titles, notes, project names or labels. These records are deleted after 90 days.

### Cookies

The app uses cookies and browser storage to keep you signed in and to remember your settings.

### Deleting your data

You can delete your account and its data at any time from the account menu in the app. You can also disconnect the app in your Todoist settings, under Integrations.

### Contact

Questions: [ylondonba@gmail.com](mailto:ylondonba@gmail.com)