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What are your contexts?
kenzi | Apr 18 2006
I have been rereading some of Merlin's posts now that I have started GTD implementation and his post about contexts was really helpful because I am unsure about the contexts that I have set up. I found it interesting to read his list of contexts, and thought it would be helpful to hear what others have in their lists of contexts. Please post your contexts, maybe with a little explanation about the logic behind your system. Thanks. Here is my list (feel free to critique it): home: computer My logic: I have a home business that involves selling stuff online, meeting clients outside my home and also having clients to my house, plus I have a night job (for rent money and benefits) where, if I have downtime, I can do whatever I want (within reason) including phone calls, research, errands etc. I split out errands to "out" and "work" because there are some errands I can do near work, but actually those can be done at anytime, like on my way to work, so I will probably eliminate "work: errands". "Home: do" is a catch-all for chores and non-work stuff around the house that doesn't fit the other categories; I am thinking of breaking that out a little more. "Think, create" is another catchall for brainstorming, sketching, mulling in a controlled situation...not just daydreaming, but working out ideas for a specific project. 79 Comments
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@ Babylon (dance team I...Submitted by SteveC on April 19, 2006 - 5:40am.
@ Babylon (dance team I help to organise) Then there are the 'non-N/A' categories Errands (shopping lists, wish lists and so on) -------- There's only one @ Work context as I really don't get that many N/As at work. I do have to review a lot of documents for other people, but those all arrive in my email and get automatically flagged and filed in a 'review' folder. Most of the rest is 'hard-landscape'. (In some ways I must be lucky -- and I fully expect this to change when I manage to change roles at work). Future plans include separating Waiting For into Work and non-work as I've done with projects. And I'm still not happy with the home stuff. I suspect that I still have 'projects' in the 'N/A' lists. The other issue is that I use the work Outlook and my Palm as the main list storing devices and I don't tend to check the Palm very much at home. I haven't worked out the best way of sorting this one yet! Steve » POSTED IN:
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