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Homework Assignments: Where do they go?

As a student, I get many homework assignments from reading, to worksheets, to completing problem sets in a text. I was wondering, where should these assignments go in my GTD system? I was thinking contexts for each subject, but that seems to over-complicate my contexts which the GTD book says to avoid. Then I thought just put them in one context, but then where do due dates go, and they get rather jumbled in one context. Some homework needs to get completed sooner than others, so it's a deadline. But most of my tasks are related to homework, so then I'm putting most of my next actions (homework) on my calendar. If anyone could point me in the right direction here, I'd greatly appreciate it.

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Wherever you do your homework

If you do your homework at a library you could have a context list @Library with all of your assignments

If you do it at your dorm room/bed room/home - @Dorm, @Room @ Home

If you do things on your laptop - @Laptop

Or what about @Homework??

Homeowrk seems like more of a daily task than something that you should need to be reminded about.


If due dates are an issue, perhaps these things should go on your calendar?

 
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