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Contexts for academia
RM66 | Sep 18 2007
What contexts do folks involved in academia find work well? I divided my contexts into "Need brain" and "Don't need brain", but my "Need brain" group seems to need some additional granularity, but I can't quite figure out of what sort. I've been considering a context that is basically "need at least an hour of uninterrupted time"--but it's rare for that context to actually arise when the term is in session. Anyway, I was just curious what other people who are academics do in terms of contexts. (I have searched the forums and found some answers, but not quite the answer as to what people find works well) Thanks 14 Comments
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 I use a pretty basic...Submitted by GeekLady on September 19, 2007 - 8:21am.
I use a pretty basic set of contexts and rely a lot more on projects and project groups to help keep work tidy. After all, in academia nothing is ever a single task! Then the beaurocracy would starve. Contexts (and subcontexts, a bad habit remaining from OF): I have 'groups' of projects though. Different lab experiments that are being done for a specific (lab) project are grouped by project, and then these are sometimes grouped by grant. All the graphical projects are lumped together, and all of the powerpoint presentations are in a different lump. I actually keep my reading list as a project instead of a context, so I'll hit it more vigorously in reviews. I used to use OF to manage all this, it worked really well for a while back in July. Then they started putting single actions in project view and it all went down the toilet from there. So now I'm back figuring out a new paper system, but I kept my project groups and contexts because they really got streamlined when OF worked for GTD. » POSTED IN:
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