Matrix Tasks

Case study

Problem

General-purpose todo apps reward accumulation. Without forced prioritisation, 'important but not urgent' work gets crushed under daily firefighting and the list just keeps growing.

Approach

Make the Eisenhower Matrix the only way to add a task. Every entry has to go into one of four urgency/importance quadrants on creation, so triage becomes the default action, not an afterthought. Local-first browser storage so it works offline; Framer Motion for the cross-quadrant moves so the model feels tactile.

Outcome

The friction at add-time nudges users toward thinking about importance instead of just queuing more items. The offline-first model means there's no auth, no syncing, and nothing to break when the network drops.

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