[Paul]

Originally Posted by sprugman

Maybe this was mentioned already, but I don't see it: why not create an "in progress" context?

I think an in progress Context would often hide tasks that are of high priority by removing them from the context where they could actually be accomplished.
An in-progress status would, for some people, indicate a priority for that task, something like, "I should complete this task before I forget how I was doing it/what my variables meant/what distinctions I was going to write about...."