Dwight, I agree that contexts are a good way to express a status like
"waiting". I don't need a "someday" status - everything that has no date
and no goal is implicitly "someday". I also don't need "active" because
MLO already has an implicit concept of "active", "available", "next
action" that is e.g. used in the action filter (search for "action
filter" in the Windows help file). If you want to emphasize certain
tasks more, you can still use the star, flags, contexts (and text tags
in the upcoming version) for that purpose. And for projects, MLO already
has a dedicated "Status" field.
Contexts are also a good way to express the "energy level". Actually in
GTD you select your tasks based on context, available time and energy
level, and then on importance and urgency. In MLO, you can use the "max
time", but there is no "energy" property. But you can easily create
low/med/high energy contexts and contexts for short/med/long tasks if
you prefer that over entering max time. I have prefixed
location/people/time/energy/status related contexts with different
characters, which makes them easier to enter and the context list
clearly arranged.
One problem with contexts is that despite their importance in MLO they
are somewhat difficult to enter. When you use the keyboard shortcut to
go to the Context field, its context is selected, and if you forget to
press Right-Arrow before typing, you can easily overwrite the existing
context when you usually just want to add another one. When you click
the "..." button, the window with the context list is pretty small so
that I need to scroll. So there are still areas of improvement here.
-- Christoph
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