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I used to live in two separate homes in two separate states. The actionable status of a number of actions was defined by what state I was in, so when I was in State A, I set the State B contexts to On Hold, and vice versa. I could of course have achieved this with perspectives, but I chose to do it this way, so that when I was viewing all available actions in all projects, those actions were hidden.

Now that I live in only one place, the same thing can apply when I'm on vacation or otherwise away from a given context for a non-trivial period of time.

I also use an On Hold context (usually a context that I've named "Info") to hide actions in "projects" that area really just lists, so that they don't show up in my active lists. But that's not really part of the GTD system--it's a way to sneak some of my project support material into the same software that handles the GTD system.