[Tim Wood]

Right now an action without a project is an inbox item -- it isn't considered actionable or even something you've committed to. Since you haven't committed to it, it isn't shown in context mode (so as not to ask you to act on something you haven't committed to doing or necessarily even broken up into actions).

Now, of course I say "right now" in that if you'd like the application to work a different way, please feel free to send feedback, but I wanted to just mention why this is happening.