Eisenhower matrix template (free)

What’s inside the Eisenhower Matrix.

Real content in every part, ready to rewrite with your own.

1An inbox for unsorted tasks, the two questions to ask, and a count of what’s sorted
2Urgent / Not urgent and Important / Not important headings over four hand-drawn boxes
3Do as a checklist with due times, and Schedule as a week calendar with time blocks
4Delegate hand-offs joined to a person and a day, and Drop struck through in red
5Empty slots to add a task or book a block

When to use it.

Eisenhower Matrix is a whiteboard for sorting a week of tasks by two questions: is it urgent, and does it matter? Everything starts in the inbox, then moves into one of four boxes, each laid out the way that work gets done. Do is a checklist with due times, Schedule is a small week calendar with time blocks, Delegate hands each task to a named person with a day, and Drop is struck through. Founders, freelancers and team leads can use it every Monday to plan the week before email takes over.

Made for

Agencies running client projects
Content and social teams
Web designers and developers
Project managers

Make it yours in four steps.

Open it in Whiteboard and work through it, or let Docsiv AI do the first pass with your details.

Step 1
Empty your head into the inbox, one card per task.
Step 2
Ask of each task whether it’s urgent and whether it matters, and move it to its box.
Step 3
Book the Schedule items as blocks in the week, and give every Delegate task a person and a day.
Step 4
Strike through what you’ll drop, tell the people affected, and update the sorted count.

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Is the Eisenhower Matrix template free?

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