Comments on: thinking about contexts

By: John

John — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:13:37 +0000

David,
Thanks for the comment…always get to get perspective from someone outside my day to day ‘normalcy’. That day was higher than usual, but yeah, I usually have quite a few. I don’t have many hard and fast deadlines, so I use due dates to create priorities. As I’ve said before, I would like to get rid of due dates all together…but haven’t yet figured out how to do it!

By: David Sparks

David Sparks — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:26:46 +0000

My goodness John you have a lot of items in the red. One promise I've always made myself is items only get due dates if they are actually due. No artificial due dates for me. As a result, it is rare for me to wake up with more than 5 or 6 actual items "due." David Sparkss last blog post..OmniFocus Reviewed

By: Chad Miller

Chad Miller — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:15:18 +0000

I actually split it up into each area in my life. Misc. M.Ed. Program (portfolio/homework/research) Personal (House Projects/ThinkTank) Northwoods(Communication/lesson planning/long term/mentoring/observations/materials) Love Wins (org/work boots) CNX (materials/communication/planning) There is a shot of my projects/contexts... Chad Millers last blog post..Black Ice

By: Danny

Danny — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:23:50 +0000

I just added a “Brain” context for actions such as “decide on…” and “think about…” I just couldn’t think of a better context to put these types of things into.

By: Chris Marlow

Chris Marlow — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:22:20 +0000

I use writing and strategy contexts often! Chris Marlows last blog post..Taking H.E.L.P. on the road

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:37:11 +0000

Hi John,

I like your “tinkering” context. This makes me think I might be able to use a similar approach.

I currently have 10 context (2 of them could probably go away as I use them infrequently).

1. Home
2. Office
3. Computer
4. Linda (my lovely wife)
5. Anywhere
6. Calls
7. Errands
8. Agendas
9. Waiting for
10. Money

I think the most unique for me is the “money” category as I can (since I use OF as well) get rid of unnecessary receipts by putting the info into OF for later entry to my computer money management program (iBank… and hopefully their soon-to-be released v4.0 will have an iPhone app).