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@If Context

One of the problems I have is coordinating a particular action in one place so that I can complete it in another. For instance, grabbing a book from the office that is ready to be returned to the library as I go out to get coffee on the other side of campus.

Another similar example is that I meant to give something to a friend of mine, have had it in my pocket for several days now, but forgot to give it to him when I saw him today -- even though we spent a few hours together, eating and talking.

I thought about tackling this with dated tasks, which would certainly help in the situation with my friend, but it wouldn't help in the first example. So I think I'm going to try using @If contexts. An example would be, @If - Going past library, then grab book to take back. Or, @If - You see Mark, give him that thing.

Thoughts?

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Isn't this what the @agenda...

Isn't this what the @agenda context is supposed to do?

From what I understood, the @agenda context was a context where you listed the actions that you wanted to complete the next time you met someone.

With regard to places and not people, they should have their own contexts. As mentioned, "@" implicitly means "If @".

Otherwise, splitting actions up into sub-actions that each go onto your different @place contexts is a good idea. It's a good idea to make actions as atomic as possible and list them ALL on your actions list. Don't be afraid to have trivial actions that all relate to a library book scattered across four or five different contexts. After all, if you didn't write them down, you'd be implicitly doing that in your head. Why keep track of it in your head? Just write it down.

If it helps, find some way to make actions link to each other. For example, if all of your actions are listed on paper, number them. Then you can write down one action and list the number of the next immediate action that would follow after that. Whatever you are using to mark "next actions" should then move from one action to whatever action it "links" to once the action is done.

 
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