Printable Eisenhower Matrix (Free PDF)

Urgent against important, four quadrants, eight task lines in each — the whole method on one landscape page.

Printable Eisenhower matrix with four quadrants and eight task lines in each
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The page is laid out exactly as the method is taught: urgent and not urgent across the top, important and not important down the side, with the four quadrants numbered in the order you should work them. Each quadrant is labelled twice, once with the action — do first, schedule, delegate, drop — and once with the combination it stands for, so nobody has to remember which box is which.

Every quadrant holds eight lines, each with a checkbox, which is 32 tasks in total. That is roughly the right size: enough to empty a messy to-do list onto the page, small enough that you have to decide rather than copy everything across. The lines are form fields, so you can sort the list on screen and print the result, or print it blank and sort with a pen in a meeting.

It is one landscape page with a light lavender heading on each quadrant and gray rules elsewhere, so it prints clearly in black and white and photocopies for a team. Use it weekly on your own backlog, or draw it up with a group when everything claims to be a priority. The date field at the top right means a stack of filled sheets stays in order when you look back over a month of decisions.

How to use it

  1. 1

    Dump the list

    Write out everything on your plate first, without sorting it.

  2. 2

    Place each task

    Ask whether it is urgent, then whether it is important, and put it in the matching quadrant.

  3. 3

    Print or fill it in

    Print at 100% ("Actual size") so lines and boxes keep their exact spacing, or fill the form fields on screen in any PDF viewer.

  4. 4

    Work the quadrants in order

    Do quadrant one today, put dates against quadrant two, hand over quadrant three, and cross out quadrant four.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. There is no watermark and no sign-up for your first 20 downloads each day; after that a free account keeps downloads going. You may print the file as often as you like for personal, school or business use.
Eight lines per quadrant, 32 in total, each with its own checkbox.
Yes. All 32 lines and the date field are form fields, so you can sort on screen and print a finished sheet.
Urgent and important: do it today. Important but not urgent: schedule it. Urgent but not important: delegate it. Neither: drop it.
Yes — Eisenhower matrix, urgent-important matrix and time management matrix all describe this same four-quadrant grid.
Yes. Print it blank, fill it on a table together, then photograph or scan it. Printing in black and white loses nothing.

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