I agree that having more than one "contextual factor" (either as Contexts or a Tags or both) and being able to use these seamlessly for grouping and quick filtering would indeed be useful for narrowing down your choices for dynamic GTD task selection.

In the specific case you mention, though, what I do is I have a last-resort context called @Info that covers all kinds of communication and other work, which I would use. I also have a context called @Person which I use if I MUST have a real-time dialogue or other live interaction with a specific person either by phone or face to face. Would that be a viable avenue for you?

Hi,

Sorry that it is not in our developing plan yet. Everything is done in a special place or under a certain circumstance, and that PLACE or CIRCUMSTANCE is called Context in our app. If you want to add more than one context to the task, the context that you use may be not special enough.

Best regards,
Doit.im Team

@wendy_only

It would be interesting to understand how your designers had intended the use of Contexts vs Tags. Could you please explain?

Both of them are probably used for contexts or other contextual/situational factors such as locations, persons, tools, weather, weekday/weekend, daytime/evening, duration, effort etc. Obviously you would get a very long and unmanageable list of you were to define a separate Context for every possible combination of such situational factors. You might then end up with one context called "Errands in the Western Suburbs with Mary without her Dog, possible even with Low Energy but only Evenings or Mornings" and probably a thousand more such specific contexts.

So it would seem that the way to go would be to combine Contexts and Tags (of which we can have many). But the Tags are invisible, which is a total dealbreaker (so I hardly use Tags at all because of this). Another problem is we would not want to have to define the same situational factor both as a Context and as a Tag. Contexts and Tags would need to play together as a whole in order to give us a powerful way to narrow down our lists in the various situations that can come up.

How are the Contexts and Tags intended by Doit's designers to be used in concert with each other?