> First off, I find that paper is easier for me than electronic.

Me too! I'm a geek, but I use a plain paper planner and it works great. More at Fare thee well Hipster PDA - I barely knew ye

> When I write down a project, I try to do one project per page, and then list out the next actions to complete the project.

I may be misunderstanding, but I strongly suggest you have a master projects list that just has then names of all of your projects, but no detail (*maybe* a due date). Project planning - which is what you're talking about - should be tracked in a folder for each project. This includes brainstorming possible actions, working out dependencies and deadlines, etc.

This lets you review your projects without getting sucked into planning. It'll also let you focus on one project at a time.

> It then seems like I would need to go through all my project lists onto my context lists. Is there a better way to do this than going through all my projects and put all the @phone actions on my @phone list?

Usually you do this as new projects come up. But when first starting, yes you have to pull out at least one action from each project, which you'll put on your actions list. Note: the minimum is one action/project, though more is OK.

Also, use contexts only if you have a large number of actions (>30?) and you're having trouble scanning them in one sitting. I'm on the smaller end of the # of actions spectrum, and have only two "contexts" - Actions and Errands. (I like having errands separate.)

> Also, I know David Allen is opposed to daily todo lists, but I find having a big list of stuff to do overwhelms me... If I put 3 - 5 things todo on a list, do them, and then repeat I seem to get more done.

This is a fine practice AS LONG AS you: 1) Create the daily todo list from your actions, 2) be prepared to let it go if something more important comes up (see Lakein's Question), and 3) throw away your daily list at the end of each day and start over fresh in the morning. The risk is that you'll focus on the daily, then it becomes your defacto actions list, and you start missing others that are more important...

> I also find that I do like the searchability (if that's a word) of keeping things in electronic format but like I said feel better working with paper.

It's your call, and depends on what you're trying to track. I use an electronic file (see My Big-Arse Text File - a Poor Man's Wiki+Blog+PIM) for just this reason - I can search and group ideas or references very easily. Everything else is paper (see my set-up above). If you don't have a tremendous number of actions and projects, searching might not be necessary.

Of course email searching is a given, but that's already electronic

Hope that helps!