Hello communicatrix… Let me reclarify:

I’m using iCal in two different ways.

1. Hard Landscape: these items aren’t going through KGTD, and are the two groups I defined towards the end of my post:

   • My Landscape, that includes scheduled meetings, gigs and lessons (I’m a part time musician after my full time design/PM job), holidays, appointments, holidays, et al.
   • Others: includes cursory hard landscape items for my Significant Other, my roommate, coworkers, and students- for reference, but disabled in a single click when I want to.

2. TO-DO Management- KGTD

   • I had a separate group, “CONTEXTS”, but will slowly be migrating to something similar to what Merlin outlined above. I don’t really have any actual calendar items here- just to do items (some of which do have start or due dates and alarms) organized one-calendar-per-context. These are synced with, and generally originate in, KGTD.

The separate calendars are still useful for filtering purposes, as your to-dos are color coded and disappear/reappear just like calendar items as you turn different calendars, and, per Merlin’s solution, GROUPS.

You can check off, and even create, to do’s in iCal, but you can’t really edit them or deal with them on a project basis - that’s reserved for working in OOPro/KGTD. SO: your forced to just work through your context lists. AND, as I mentioned before, you can turn on and off calendars to make your current visible “context” as wide or as focused as you need.

Does that help?