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B, C, and D are not Next Actions since they are not immediately doable. Shouldn't be placed on @context lists - should be stored in a Project notes or reference file.

Interesting that you haven't asked the most important question that I would have asked in your situation:

What should I have been doing differently to get a promotion? What was expected from me?

Absolutely no. I wonder why you placed both - Calendar and Someday/Maybe color labels on page 200.

Do you create calendar manually?

Do you combine calendar with Someday/Maybe list?

Someone should get it (Blackberry is doomed - they don't understand anything) and create a more expensive "secure" smartphone with no camera!

I can imagine the ad "The only blind smartphone in the...

I'm sorry. I was misled by your statement that you had been adding to-do's to lots of lists. Lists such as someday/maybe, errands, calls, online, and various inboxes (iphone, evernote).

I am...

In your post I see many pieces of a puzzle but they are scattered in random order. I think you should read the Getting Things Done book. Really. It will help you understand the 5 steps of the GTD...

What about this plan:

Drive to a Swedish furniture warehouse and buy a "good enough" bookcase.
Mount a bookcase in a "good enough" place.
Prepare a "good enough" elevator pitch concerning...

OK, it was great to make fun of GTD contexts, argue just for the sake of arguing, troll a little but now it's time to focus on helping people to Get their Things Done.

If the idea of GTD contexts...

We often invent FRESH looks when we forget what the original idea was about.

You called the thread "Forget about contexts" so I think the proper name for this new approach is a "FRESHLY SQUEEZED"...

Since you like the "Steve Jobs example" very much I would like to ask you once again:

Do you really think Steve Jobs had to remember about an oil change in his car or to execute a contract...

I agree that GTD may be not applicable for visionary CEO who operates at the strategic level. As I see from your description Steve Jobs did not need to remember about an oil change in his car or a...

Do you really have to operate at that level of detail? Interesting!



Not in my case.

Many? How many? Most of the GTDers I know use contexts successfully. Many people I know use 2 GTD systems: work and personal. I call these areas of action "supercontexts".



I'm not @computer...

You may be interested in using Gina Trapani's Todo.txt.

You can find plenty of such people here (including Forum Wrangler Kelly Forrister and me). There are many threads in which the topic was discussed and there is a general consensus that you can have...

In my opinion a good Weekly Review done weekly is part of the answer since during this process you review all the lists and learn what's on them. No, you don't have to remember every item but during...

Very often you have to do stuff that you hate at the tactical level to achieve your strategic goals.

Funny example - I really hate to wash glass walls of my shower cabin but... I like to see them...

Why can't you just open the list and look at it?

Because you don't feel the need (or benefit).

Some people don't feel the need to brush their teeth. They don't care if their teeth are brown and...

I don't know what this note means so I would probably throw it away.



@HomeOffice. I need access to tax related documents.