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Urgent & important: How (not) to do your to-do list — LessWrong

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The Eisenhower Box is a well-known, simple decision matrix for dealing with tasks such as a to-do list, based on whether they’re urgent or important. I reckon it has multiple flaws. But by fixing each flaw in turn, we end up with a better matrix, which I'll call Hopscotch. It's much more useful for planning your day, and can also be simplified further. The great problem of life is what to do. Your life consists of millions of decisions large and small, from making coffee to running for President. Which should you do, and when, and how? There’s all the things to be done at work and home, constant demands and distractions, unfulfilled ambitions at the back of your mind – and barely time to think, let alone get through all this stuff. Happily, a box has been invented to help you out. A bit like an Amazon Echo – but made only of paper & ink – it not only tells you how to deal with everything on your plate, but magically makes some of it disappear. Or so it is claimed. The Eisenhower Box (o

x Urgent & important: How (not) to do your to-do list — LessWrong Task Prioritization Algorithms Checklists Planning & Decision-Making Productivity Frontpage 52 Urgent & important: How (not) to do your to-do list by bfinn 1st Feb 2019 15 min read 20 52 The Eisenhower Box is a well-known, simple decision matrix for dealing with tasks such as a to-do list, based on whether they’re urgent or important. I reckon it has multiple flaws. But by fixing each flaw in turn, we end up with a better matrix, which I'll call Hopscotch . It's much more useful for planning your day, and can also be simplified

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