Eisengrid: A Priority/Effort Task Manager

Eisengrid is a personal task manager built around one blunt question: is this work important enough, and small enough, to do now?

Most task managers are good at collecting work. Fewer are good at forcing a decision. A long list can make a tiny follow-up, a deep project, a blocked task, and a vague idea feel equally present. Eisengrid puts each task on a priority/effort matrix first, then lets you work it through Kanban when status matters.

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Why Another Task Manager

The Eisenhower matrix is useful because it makes tradeoffs visible. High-priority, low-effort tasks should move now. High-priority, high-effort tasks need a real plan. Low-priority, low-effort tasks are easy to delegate or batch. Low-priority, high-effort tasks are often not worth doing at all.

That logic usually gets lost when the matrix is a whiteboard exercise or a slide in a productivity article. Eisengrid makes it the working surface.

The Matrix Is The Product

The matrix view plots every task by priority and effort. Drag a task bubble and the underlying task changes with it. Clusters keep dense projects readable, dependency lines show what is blocked, and quadrant labels keep the decision model visible while you work.

The goal is not to make planning more decorative. The goal is to make priority harder to ignore.

Kanban When Status Matters

A matrix tells you what deserves attention. Kanban tells you where the work is in the pipeline.

Eisengrid keeps both views over the same data. Switch to Kanban when you need Planned, Started, Review, Finished, and Blocked columns. Cards still carry their priority, effort, project, due date, tags, and quadrant, so the priority signal does not disappear just because you changed views.

Built For Follow-Through

Eisengrid V1 includes the pieces a personal task system needs after the first capture pass:

• Workspaces and projects for separating contexts.
• Priority and effort coordinates for every task.
• Statuses for day-to-day execution.
• Blocked-task relationships for dependency visibility.
• Recurring tasks for work that comes back.
• Ethereal tasks that quietly archive themselves after their shelf life.
• Archive and restore flows for completed or deleted work.
• Attachments for the files that belong with a task.
• JSON and CSV import/export.

The product is intentionally personal in V1. Collaboration can wait; the first version is about giving one person a sharper view of their own work.

API And Agent-Ready

Eisengrid also ships with a public REST API, OpenAPI docs, and a downloadable LLM skill bundle.

That means an agent can create tasks, update status, search work, list projects, attach files, and operate through a documented interface instead of scraping the UI. API tokens are personal access tokens, and the docs are available at eisengrid.com/api/docs.

This is useful when planning work from a terminal session, turning meeting notes into tasks, or asking an agent to keep your backlog clean while still leaving the final task system in your control.

Mobile And PWA

Eisengrid is a web app and PWA. On desktop, the matrix can breathe. On mobile, the interface compresses into touch-friendly navigation so you can still inspect the matrix, switch to Kanban, and capture work when you are away from your desk.

Pricing

Eisengrid is paid from day one: EUR 5.99/month or EUR 59.99/year, with a 7-day trial. A card is required at signup.

That is deliberate. The product does not need ads, resale of attention, or growth tricks. It needs to be useful enough to pay for, simple enough to trust, and boring enough to keep running.

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