Many good electronic list management programs allow what you are wanting to do–see a broad view of projects and their related Next Actions. Best of both worlds you would be working from a variety of views and be able to fluidly move between them. For example, sometimes I want to look at a project and work through actions just related to that project, and other times context trumps all and will be the limiting factor in choosing what I can do. Not to say I can’t then filter within context to focus on a particular project.

All that said, a simple solution to do what you’re asking is to include a keyword for the project you want to work on. That will give you a visual trigger when choosing actions, if the description isn’t specific enough as to what project it related to.

But end of day, if you don’t use contexts lists and only want to list next actions under their related project, be prepared to be evaluating next action choices that you can’t make, because you aren’t in the right context. And you’ll likely be looking in more places (every project and all related plans), than if you were only having to look at the Next Action lists for the contexts that match your current availability.

Hope that helps.

Kelly

GTD is more then just task management.

GTD is life management.

You need some link between a taks, project, and horizon.

Thnx. I have read those pdfs already.

The “problem” with context list only is that there is no link to a project.

There is no real overview from these projects are the most important.

You are just working through context-lists instead of finishing projects.

You want to have a project list and a list of actions per project.

And then link these actions to context.

Am i the only one who thinks this way?

It would be redundant if you wrote the list of actions per project, and then wrote them again on the context lists. But the idea is to only write them on the context lists.

You may want to download the free article on setting up a paper planner, available here.
http://www.davidco.com/free_articles

Question about paper based GTD.

How do manage project lists, actions and the specific contexts?

Is you have a action list (per project) and you write down the context next to it i guess you will have to write that action again on a different page for the specific context.

This is a bit redundent right? what’s a good way to solve this?

I quite like Apple’s “reminders”, but I worry about the risk of having my iphone stolen, or the data being lost in some other way. And there’s something very satisfying about being able to review your tasks on a train using paper, when everyone else is worrying about flat batteries.

But the biggest factor for me is the speed at which I can input a variety of data, simply by using pen and paper.

Best Regards

JC
http://comomeorganizo.blogspot.com