[Craig]

I agree that the usefulness of the inactive context seems pretty marginal. Between you and me, I think the programmers had figured out how to make *projects* active or inactive and just figured, since they had the code worked out, they might as well apply it to contexts too...

On the allow next actions question, I do like being able to click below my context lists (deselecting them and thereby selecting all) as a quick way to get all of my actions, but you're right that there are other ways this could be done. But when viewing projects, I do find it very helpful to have my waitingfors formatted differently (grayed and italicized by default) as a way to distinguish them from actions that are truly mine, and that comes from this setting.