There are many articles on the Eisenhower Matrix, but here’s a handy infographic from Asana:
I’m trying out Todoist’s rather fixed priority setting thus:
Priority 1 = Important and Urgent (or what I call “Do it”)
Priority 2 = Important but Not Urgent (or what I call “Plan it”
Priority 3 = Not Important but Urgent
Priority 4 = I should probably either prioritize or junk these tasks
GTD has you avoid prioritizing tasks, but I never found a large body of tasks, even properly organized into projects and contexts, deferred or active, to be useful for getting through a day. I can’t say for sure that this scheme will work, but I do find myself working off of Todoist’s Today filter and then my “Do It” and “Plan It” filters each day.
Do It filter syntax:
@important & @urgent | @Today | Today | p1
Plan It filter syntax:
@important & !@urgent | P2