Nice post, Merlin! I’m a man of few contexts myself, and it works rather well for me. Having fewer contexts means I’ll review my lists of actions a bit more - some may consider this a waste of time but I find that it helps stimulate my thinking, almost like a mini-review (which is good, because I’m no role model when it comes to real reviews…).

Personally, I’d rather read through, say, 40 Next Actions in one @work context than 5 work-related contexts with 8 actions each. I think sometimes we tend to try to use a system like GTD to replace thinking, which it cannot. better to spend one’s energy thinking about the tasks than the contexts, IMHO.