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Originally Posted by michelle
What do you think about hierarchical contexts? Ex: Office>Calls>Fred
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Hm, I’m not sure. I’ll give some first impressions now, and then think about it some more.
So, Office>Calls would be just calls that can be done in the Office context? Does this mean I need a Home>Calls, Car>Calls, and Doctor’s Office>Calls too? Because I might make calls from any of those places. If so, how do I know which context to associate with my task of “Call Fred to negotiate quotes”?
I guess I see my contexts as having both mutually exclusive and independent aspects. Home and Office are mutually exclusive (for me), but either one can be active at the same time as my Calls context. And what’s worse, the Calls context can be active when neither Home nor Office are (e.g., I’m behaving badly and making calls while driving). Argh, what a mess!
And yet… when I create a task like “Call Fred to negotiate quotes”, I know right away that it should be tagged with the Calls context (but neither Home nor Office).
Back to hierarchical. Perhaps this would work IF there is no single root to the hierarchy. Bear with me while I work this out…
At the top level, I can imagine a “Place” context hierarchy that looks like this:
Place
Place:Home
Place:Office
Place:Out
Place:Out:Library
Place:Out:Bank
Place:Out:Grocery Store
This is a mutually exclusive set of place contexts. I have to be able to select both leaves and non-leaves. Place:Home is for tasks that must be done at home. Place:Out is for tasks that cannot be done at home or in the office, but I’m not saying anything beyond that. I like this hierarchy.
But at the top level, I think we still need independent contexts: Place, Computer, Calls, People/Agendas, etc.
And then we get back to SpiralOcean’s original idea, right? I can activate one or more top-level contexts and exactly one node
within each context hierarchy:
Calls
Place:Office + Calls
Place:Office + Calls + Agendas:Fred
Yeah, that might work. :) SpiralOcean? pomares? samaparicio?
Again, I’m open to phone calls or whatever to hash out ideas.
— Tim