Now that I'm back at my desktop, I resynced.  Now, I looked at Manage
Contexts, and have found something.

I used Getting Things Done Beginners Action template to create mine.  The
first three contexts are: !Actions !All Actions and !Errands (not to be
confused with my @Errands).  I don't know what these are or why they are
there, so I've just ignored them.  However, when I look at all my contexts
in Manage Contexts, the ones inherited from the template all have !Actions
and !All Actions in the "Included by Context" column.  What does this mean?
 The Contexts that have !Actions and !AllActions in the "Included by
Context" column do not show up in the Starred view.  The ones for whom that
column is blank do show up.

I couldn't figure out how to change that column, so I created @Errands1,
which did not have !Actions and !AllActions in the "Included by Context"
column.  Now they all show up in the Starred view.  And many of them show
up in the Active view too, but I still haven't figured out exactly what
Active means and how to use it in my planning.  That will come next.

It would be really interesting if someone could explain what that template
is and why it's working that way, but for now my problem is solved.

Thanks!
Amberly

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Lisa Stroyan <[email protected]> wrote:

> What version are you running?  It sounds like you may be running into some
> kind of a bug...
>
> Does @Errands show up in the @ by Context when you have a task with two
> contexts?
>
> I saw something the other day where a context didn't show up. The task
> showed up under one context and not the other in @ by Context. I was in the
> middle of a big rename, and didn't have time to track it down, but it
> sounds like exactly what you are seeing...In hindsight I couldn't get it to
> happen and so I assumed that I had been mistaken and it had just sorted
> strangely (because the sort order is not the same as the desktop, which
> I've reported on the beta group). But now I'm thinking there is also a
> nasty bug in Contexts on Android perhaps related to rename.
>
> Want to try an experiment?  Fully sync everything...then on the desktop,
> create a new Context, @NewErrands. Move all or some of the @Errands to
> @NewErrands, sync, and see if they show up.   (Renaming the context didn't
> fix it when I saw this, but deleting the context and reassigning tasks did).
>
> Lisa
>
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Amberly Chirolla <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> I don't have zoom or filters on. I haven't figured out the active problem
>> yet, but I did figure out that whether or not the item shows up in the
>> Starred list (not Active Starred) is related to the context.  About half of
>> them show up and half don't.  So if I change "pick up drycleaning" from
>> @Errands to @Computer (or just add @Computer as one of the contexts), it
>> shows up. The number is the actual number of starred items whether or not
>> it shows up in the list.  But I haven't figured out yet why certain
>> contexts show up and others don't. Any ideas?
>>  On Jun 5, 2012 7:39 AM, "Lisa Stroyan" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> You don't have a filter or zoom set, do you?
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Lisa Stroyan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Does this happen on both platforms, or just Android?
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> In my Active by Context view, only 14 of the 65 items in my to do list
>>>>> show up (most of which should be active, as I am just using it for
>>>>> current items--I haven't put long-term things in there yet.)
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
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