![]() it’s the end of the day and you’re tired, low energy and just not feeling it. For example, you might be able to do your tasks from anywhere but that doesn’t mean there aren’t limiting factors such as energy level or mood to consider. Rather than just throwing the whole idea of contexts in the trash, we should make them work for us in this time. This way of thinking is not wrong, when you can do your tasks from anywhere, having location specific contexts doesn’t make sense (though I’m sure there are still some tasks you need to be at home to do.) Is there really any need to have an context in 2022? It’s 2022, are contexts still relevant? So much of our work is online now and we can access everything from phones, tablets, laptops and other devices that are always with us. This makes deciding on a task much quicker, reduces friction and keeps you productive. When you arrive at the office you can pull up your list and see only the tasks that you can actually do. Similarly, if you’re not at the computer you don’t want to see any tasks that need a computer to complete. If you’re at the office, there is no point looking at tasks that need you to be at home to do. This reduces the overwhelm and anxiety and makes it easy to find the nextĬontexts also show you only what you need to see. When you pull out your context list, instead of seeing 100 or more tasks you might only be looking at a dozen or so. 20 tasks may need to be done at the computer so put them on an list and so on. Of your 100 tasks maybe 15 of them require you to be at home so put them on an list. In a list with over 100 tasks you wont be able to find anything, you need something to reduce the number of tasks to 10-20. Often I’ll have over 100 tasks on all my action lists combined. If you’re like me you have a lot of tasks on your action lists. All of which may require the input of your spouse, I’d put them on an context list which I’d pull over the breakfast table.Ĭontexts perform two major functions, they reduce the number of tasks you have to look at and they show you only the tasks you can actually do. It could be a colleague, a spouse, child or boss, if you have tasks that you need to be with someone to do, use a context such as You may have tasks such as plan summer school for kids, decide on new sofa and buy new mattress. So, you may end up with two separate contexts here: and would contain tasks that require use of the printer and would contain tasks that just require you to be at the studio to do (such as ‘design iPhone case’ or ‘clean studio.’) last type of context uses a person as it’s limiting factor. The limiting factor here is not being at the studio, rather its being (assuming it’s not in use.) is a context with a tool as it’s limiting factor. would be a context that uses place as it’s limiting factor.īut lets say you’re at the studio but the printer is printing something (this can take many hours.) You still are unable to do those tasks. you’re at home or in the office, you can’t do those tasks because there is a limiting factor – being at the studio – in order to do them. stated above, contexts are the primary limiting factor in what tasks you can do but what does this really mean? Let’s say you have a 3D printer in your studio and you have a few tasks such as calibrate printer, print out iPhone case etc. Gtd contexts full#So tasks you do on your computer add to tasks to do in the office go on there’s more to know if you really want to understand and get the full benefits of using contexts correctly in GTD. When you are processing and come to the organize phase, add tasks to the relevant context. Think of contexts as the titles for your action lists ![]()
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