Working by context or by project

[ero213]

Assuming that you have control of your context there are two different way you can work: by firing through all of your next actions in one context or changing your context to work on actions related to a particular project. Which strategy do you employ most often?

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[Oogiem]

By far the vast majority of the time I work by context. It just makes more sense. Say I have several projects active, vaccinate sheep, trim toes, give dewormer, evaluate and weigh. Each of those is a separate project because there are different groups of sheep so different actions for each group. It only makes sense that when I am in the context of outside with help and have all the adult ewes in the sweep that I do everything to them at once, so they get their toes done (to the limits of my back and hands), shots, wormer and weight. The only glitch is when we have run out of sheep patience and then we just stop for the day and do the rest another day and yes my sheep are spoiled.

I live where I work so I can easily switch contexts but its very inefficient. The only time I get stuck working by project is if I am on a deadline (like tax stuff for the ditch company) and just need to power through it all.

[vbampton]

It depends....

I live and work at home, and I spend most of my life in my office at my main computer, so most of my contexts would be available most of the time.

If I'm working on a bigger project, I often find it easier to switch context (within reason) than I do to change direction and do a task from a different project. I feel like I've achieved more that way too.

If I'm doing odd tasks off multiple smaller projects, I'll work by context, knocking off tasks in the same program, batching phonecalls, emails, etc.

For everything else (i.e. I have to get out of my chair!), it's by context.

[Cpu_Modern]

My situation, beahvior and opinion are the basically the same as vbampton's.

I feel like I've achieved more that way too.

I would wager it's not only a feeling.

[Suelin23]

I often work by context and then by priority. I don't like working for too long on the one project anyway and get bored if I do, so usually prefer to change projects fairly often.

[SeanJada]

I often work by context and then by priority. I don't like working for too long on the one project anyway and get bored if I do, so usually prefer to change projects fairly often.

Be cool while doing the project time..