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I am assuming by "active" projects, you mean projects with a next action in one or more contexts. I keep those limited as much as possible so I can focus on only a few projects in each area of focus...

Instead of "trigger", you will probably find a ton of reading searching "tickler". What you are referring to is a tickler file.

Exactly my point. I could list 10 single NAs for myself and others may break those actions into 7 "mini-steps" so they stay motivated. If that's what they need to do, so be it. I personally don't...

Yes, the strict GTD definition is that anything with more than one step is a project. The difference, however, is in how each person breaks down their items.

In our scenario of ordering a...

Well, exactly as was posted, subscribe to a magazine. Most of those "steps" you list would not be steps I would list separately. They are all done at one time IMO. When I decided I wanted to...

I don't agree that S/M is for projects only. S/M is for anything that you might want to do, or plan to do someday. Whether it be a project or one action.

Just because I have one simple action,...

It takes me 40 minutes to get to work. If I had 4 NAs on my list, in order...

1. most important (@work)
2. next (@home)
3. next (@work)
4. next (@home)

Doing them in order of importance...

Personally, I would have the shopping list under my context of Errands.

I usually list my errands in one of two ways...

1. By location if I have multiple items to do/get at specific locations...

My handling would be to start a project for the product development. Then my first NA would be...

@Agendas
- (Product) SELF: Brainstorm ideas for product development

If I need to brainstorm...

I do the same as above, but I do not use paper either. I use my PDA for everything.

I don't have a Projects List. With a PDA, you can carry the entire Project plan as a note attached with the...

Yes, that's exactly what I was referring to as well. You need to schedule it on the calendar in order to keep yourself exercising. It really is related to time. If you put something like that on...

I agree. I would schedule it on a week-to-week basis. If your calendar allows you to schedule it on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, but suddenly on Tuesday you find time to exercise, then go ahead...

Unless you are walking outside and hollering into the sky, then @Calls is certainly based on a location......by a phone. @Calls (or @Phone) is used because people have so many phones in different...

Yes, but Calls and Agendas are still based on a location.

There really is no relation in any sense of GTD to have a context titled @Job Search. That would be a project, not a context, imo.
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Many of these contexts that you folks are listing are not contexts in the GTD sense.

Contexts are physical locations.

@research, @development, @conception, etc, would be NAs or projects.
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5 was an arbitrary number. I have daily items on my calendar that have to be done every week, every day. After that I have ad-hoc single actions that pop up on a daily basis that need to be added. ...

I don't know how you folks maintain that many active projects. I have many projects, but most are in my someday/maybe waiting to get started. Having to sort through 100 next actions on a daily...

When I have an idea in my inbox that needs further planning, I put it in one of two places...

Agendas: I put the next action in my Agendas context for myself. In other words, I can brainstorm...

Technically, if you've already called the fire department, the next action goes in your "Waiting For" context (waiting for fire department). You have done the action needed at home so it no longer...

Yes. Now you are understanding it. I think you were overthinking it a little initially.

Next actions are just that - NEXT actions. If you can't do an action because it's dependent on a...