eq helps you focus on what matters using the Eisenhower Matrix. It sorts tasks by importance and urgency, keeping your workflow fast and keyboard-driven.
Installation
Install directly from source using Cargo:
Features
🧠 The Eisenhower Matrix
Tasks are automatically sorted into four quadrants based on urgency and importance. No manual sorting required.
🧘 Zen Mode
Press z to enter a distraction-free focus mode with a built-in Pomodoro timer.
🤖 AI Integration with Custom Prompt Engineering
Press c to chat with your tasks. eq doesn't just use ChatGPT's API—it implements sophisticated prompt engineering to function as an executive assistant specialized in the Eisenhower Matrix methodology.
Engineered Capabilities
GTD-Inspired Task Decomposition: The AI is prompt-engineered to identify the "next physical action" for any goal, breaking large projects into 15-45 minute actionable chunks.
Rigorous Priority Assessment: Rather than accepting vague priorities, the AI applies explicit criteria for urgency and importance, challenging assumptions and spotting "urgency theater."
Multilingual Inspirational Quotes: Type quote to receive verified quotes from dual sources: a handpicked collection of Paul Graham essays, classical Chinese philosophy, Stoic wisdom, and Japanese business thought—plus the AI's ability to extract quotes from its extensive knowledge base with extremely low hallucination probability due to implemented guardrails.
Technical Implementation
- Context injection: Current task list is passed to GPT-4o for relevance
- Temperature tuning: Lower temperature (0.3) for quote retrieval, balanced (0.5) for task planning
- Structured output format:
[ADD] Task name u<1-3>i<1-3>for automatic parsing - Role-specific instructions: Trained to challenge low-value work and identify tasks for delegation or elimination
This demonstrates practical prompt engineering deployed in service of productivity—turning a general language model into a domain-specific task management assistant.