Choosing contexts and projects in iGTD


It's worth mentioning...

..that iGTD allows you to assign existing contexts and projects to your tasks in a very efficient way. Moreover, you can add new contexts/projects on the fly. Please read the following tutorial.


Activating the chooser

To make the contexts/projects chooser visibile you simply double-click the task in the context/project column. Or use the Tab key to tab to this column when editing the task.

The chooser displays a popup table with available contexts/projects:

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Using the chooser with keyboard

You can browse the list of contexts with the down/up arrow keys - notice that you can quickly recognize the elements with children ('nested' contexts/projects) - their count is displayed:

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You can also use the type-ahead feature to quickly select a desired context/project - just type in few first letters of its name:

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...and press Enter key to assign it to the task.

You can browse the subcontexts/subprojects of the selected context/project by hitting the right arrow key:

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If there are no nested contexts/projects available, you can still hit the right arrow key:

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enter the name for a new subcontext/subproject and hit Enter. This will add a new subcontext and assign it to the task.

You can also enter the name for a new subcontext, hit the right arrow key to create it and to go inside it...

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... where you can add another subcontext!

Of course, you can go back to parent context/project by pressing the left arrow key.



Using the chooser with mouse

You can assign a chosen context/project to a task by clicking its name in the drop down list:

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You can display the subcontexts/subprojects of a context/project by doubleclicking its name - and go back to parent context/project by clicking the column header;

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