Desk Tray Eisenhower Matrix

Stop context-switching and protect your flow state. The Desk Tray Eisenhower Matrix brings a privacy-first, zero-friction task management system directly into Visual Studio Code.

Instead of jumping between your editor and an external to-do app, organize your workload, prioritize effectively, and maintain your focus without ever leaving your IDE.

🚀 Features

• The Eisenhower Methodology: Instantly categorize your tasks into four quadrants:
  • 🟩 Do Now (Urgent & Important): Top priority tasks.
  • 🟦 Plan (Important, Not Urgent): Long-term goals and architecture.
  • 🟨 Delegate (Urgent, Not Important): Tasks to automate or hand off.
  • ⬜ Drop (Neither): Distractions to eliminate.
• Seamless VS Code Integration: Automatically adapts to your active VS Code color theme (Light, Dark, or High Contrast) so it feels like a native part of the editor.
• Coder-Friendly Shortcuts: Manage your tasks entirely via the keyboard to minimize mouse reliance.
• Sliding Trays: Quickly dump thoughts into the Inbox tray, or move finished items to the Done tray to keep your active matrix clean.
• 100% Offline & Private: Your tasks never leave your machine. Everything is stored persistently using VS Code's native local state API. No cloud sync, no tracking, no telemetry.

⌨️ Keyboard Shortcuts

Speed is critical. We built hover-based keyboard shortcuts so you can organize tasks at the speed of thought.

1. Open the Matrix: Ctrl+Shift+E (or Cmd+Shift+E on Mac)
2. Focus the Input Bar: Ctrl+I

Hover Actions: Simply hover your mouse cursor over any task in the matrix or inbox, and press:

• 1 - Move to Do Now
• 2 - Move to Plan
• 3 - Move to Delegate
• 4 - Move to Drop
• D - Mark as Done
• Backspace or Delete - Delete the task permanently

🖱️ Drag and Drop

Prefer using the mouse? You can drag and drop any task seamlessly between the Inbox, the four matrix quadrants, and the Done tray.

🔒 Privacy & Data

This extension requires zero external network requests. All task data is saved locally on your device within your VS Code environment profile.

Created by: Vinay Kumar Verma Publisher: vinays-workspace