[Lucas]

Something that I've had some success with that you might try is to divide out from your general work context the key type of work that you do (the type of work that moves everything else forward) and put that at the top of your contexts list. I'm a lawyer; for me, that's writing. If I put in as much writing time as I can tolerate every day on the projects I have up front, the hardest work on those projects will be done, and I am soon able to close out those projects.

I use only real, not fake, due dates; so then I can confidently stay in my writing context up to the point that I really have to leave it to handle a due matter.

I don't spend time turning projects on or off or fiddling with start dates for the most part because as long as I have actionable items in my key context those are always going to be a good use of my time.