Hi, Brienne. What part of the world are you in? Here in the suburbs of New York it's 62F today, which feels positively chilly after the long stretch of days over 90.
Have you read the GTD book yet? It's "Getting Things Done" by David Allen, available in many libraries and relatively easy to read. It explains a lot. The idea of contexts would be that they define an environment in which certain tasks can get done. For example, most of us have tasks that have to be done on the computer, so there's no point in wasting time thinking about those tasks when you are, for example, out driving around. So you assign the context "computer" to those tasks, and maybe the context "errands" to other tasks that you do while driving. Then you can use a view like "active by context" to quickly check for stuff to do in whatever environment you find yourself. MLO goes further with concepts like the hours a context is open. I try to spend as little time on the computer as possible on Saturday, so my Computer context is closed then - if I look for things that need to be done, the Computer tasks will not show. Also, on my Android, contexts like my home and my mother-in-law's apartment are associated with a location, so those contexts don't show up (in the Nearby view) unless that's where I am. I think that the at sign (@) at the beginning represents the traditional GTD idea that contexts are generally places. Other leading characters such as # or ! are used mainly to cause the sort to work a certain way. There's no need for a leading character, you can just say "Home" or whatever, if you like. All that said, you are free to imagine other uses for contexts that reflect the way you want to organize your work. Kitus is using contact names, at least in his example. That's an interesting idea but not one I will be using myself. Richard is using contexts as list names, in order to create headings. If you think of something new, please share it with the forum. -Dwight From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mazey Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 10:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MLO] Grouping tasks with multiple contexts Out of sheer curiousity, does that #person'sname denote people in MLO? I am a complete newcomer to both MLO and GTD and this caught my eye. I find it very intriguing since I like the concept of contexts and being able to sort by something like a person's name. Have a great (hopefully not so hot) sunday, Brienne On 19.08.2012 13:36, [email protected] wrote: Hi again Kitus, Try this: In the context filter select (all) Click the checkbox for "Add Advanced" and click the "setup" button Click "add rule" if necessary In the first dropdown select "ContextsText" In the second dropdown select "contains" In the third box type "@wait" (without the quotes. MLO will add its own quotes) Click OK Use the GroupBy button to group by context. You will see listings for @wait, #john and #james. Each task will appear twice, once in @wait and once in #somebody. Note that if you have other contexts like @waiting that contain "@wait" they will be picked up as well. Suggestion, if the every entry in @wait also has a #somebody context, you could make life simpler by getting rid of the @wait context and assigning a character like "]" to mean "wait" - then you would have contexts like "]John" and "]James" and your to-do listing would filter on ContextText that starts with ]. One advantage would be that each task would appear only once. -Dwight From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of kitus Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 6:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [MLO] Grouping tasks with multiple contexts Hello again, I would be glad if anybody could give me a hand with this. Say I have one "wainting for" task which I want to track. TASK: Waiting for John to set up a meeting | Contexts: @wait, #John If I only display tasks with contexts @wait (filtering @wait on the left column), and now I want to group by John, James, etc., how do I do it? Thanks a lot in advance everyone, -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mylifeorganized/-/7LPTiL95MfEJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. 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