John: I'm having a problem with this thread because it has too many open issues. This takes something away from the usefulness of the forum for other users because the result is that a discussion that could be helpful to someone else (eg how to keep certain contexts out of the to-do list) is hidden in the postscripts of some other discussion (eg how to manage an area of focus). So I'm going to respond here to your area of focus question and start new threads for answers to your postscripts.
Using nested contexts, as I suggested, is useful if your areas of focus are isomorphic to your contexts, that is, they fall in the same general structure. Your areas of focus are orthogonal to your contexts, that is they go in a different suggestion. In this case I agree with the posts from Richard, Andrei and Pottster that your areas of focus should probably be the basis for your outline structure. So your outline would have top level branches like work, relationships, etc and there might be a next level of branches for each job, each relationship, or whatever. Then, contexts would represent what kind of task, or what you need to do the task, or whatever. You would use context filtering to select tasks relevant to the tools you have and the place you are, and use zoom-in to select the area of focus. Does this sound right to you? Note that you can build a view with a particular zoom built into it, and save it in a tab for easy access. -Dwight On Thursday, November 27, 2014 2:45:11 PM UTC-5, John Smith wrote: > > > Hello > > Newbie question: > Does MLO have an equivalent of GTD "Areas of Focus" e.g. Work, Body/Mind, > Life Learning, Relationships etc ? > > I guess I am looking for a single-click to JUST see stuff that relates to > say Work. > Presumably this could be done with Context tags in some way... but that > would be clunky. > Ultimately I suppose it's about having a second tier of filtering. > > I see that there was some discussion by in 2005 about this but what is the > current position? > > With thanks > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/5fe1049a-4e7d-4898-bd1c-36c56315e1d6%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
