I have three ideas that may kick off other thoughts for you.
I take a lot of advantage of the outline tree, and I use
"TopLevelParentName contains..." to filter out unwanted items. It
does seem if you follow the suggestion to get rid of Work/Home
contexts you might have an easier time of this. What I do is I have
9 major life areas of focus that are each a folder at the top
level. I realized I was trying to force fit GTD contexts into these
which is not the model. So I have folders for each of these plus Inbox.
You might be able to take advantage of the "Sort" field instead of
Group-By as it doesn't duplicate the tasks....If you put your Context
column in front then they will kind of be grouped, but not sure what
it does for multiple contexts.... I also have been known to put a
sort field at the beginning of the title and sort by title.
You can change the name of the flags as well as the icons. Just
yesterday I went through and changed mine and like it much
better. For anything you have a fixed set of categories, this is an option.
Assuming you eliminated the Work context, you could name your
contexts in the way you want them sorted in the group by, then you
could have just one view per person instead of 2 and you would have
agendas and waitingfor next to each other. Just make the person's
name sort after the other contexts.
Oh, one more thought :) I've found when I am trying to find advanced
ways of organizing tasks that for me, it means I have too many tasks
in my current view. The weekly review is where I (theoretically)
choose the tasks I will actively view, which for me is my flagged
list. Not exactly GTD, I know. So I've created a view that shows
all current and future tasks grouped by Goal. If it's not either a
Weekly, Monthly, or Yearly Goal, it gets moved to a hidden
Someday/Maybe list. (Note that since Goals don't "expire", my week
often stretches to several...I just use it as "what's my general
timeframe for this?") About once a week I got through this
Planning view and flag the things that I want to be on my shorter list.
Other ways to cut down the list - only put in things that really are
"on your mind". Is "get coffee" really a commitment? (I suppose it
depends on whether you mean hot coffee or coffee beans :) Even so,
I have moved all of my individual groceries, cleaning tasks, etc out
of my system unless they are commitments. "cleanup the kitchen" for
example is not on my list unless someone is coming over :) But I do
go back and forth on this...especially because I'm a tad bit addicted
to marking things complete - but it's not a healthy one, because it
leads me to work on things that are less important. But I digress! :)
Lisa
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http://www.empathic-parenting.com
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