[dpvanwormer]

garyo, what you want to do can be accomplished in OF now - although I have to say that I don't use OF for iPhone anymore, so I tested this out on OF for Mac.

What I use all the time currently is a "People Agendas" context with names of the people I regularly have items to discuss as sub-contexts. And, under each name I have a sub-sub-context of "Waiting For." So, if I want to discuss a task I want to give to John, I put it in OF under "People Agendas : John" until I discuss it with him and get his agreement to do it, and then I move it to "People Agendas : John : Waiting For" until he gets back with me to tell me it's done. Any time I want to check my "status" with John, I look under the "People Agendas : John" context and can see first the items I need to discuss with John and just below that the items that I am waiting for John to do. All of my "Waiting For" contexts under the various people have a On Hold status so that they don't appear in my available tasks.

The same thing can be done with regular contexts. I haven't done that myself up to now, but you started me thinking about it. I tested it by making an "On Hold" sub-context under my "Office" context and then moving one of my Office tasks (which is actually on hold) under it. Same as above, when I now look at my Office context, I see my active tasks first followed by an "Office : On Hold" header with the on hold task below it. Again, by making the status of the "On Hold" sub-context as "On Hold," the on hold task will not show up as available.

At the moment, this seems to me to be an even better solution than completely separate contexts and statuses. I would prefer that all my tasks in a given context be shown together but filtered by active status first and then on hold status after.

Again, I did not try this in OF for iPhone, so I am not sure if you can set it up there.