[whpalmer4]

A bit of a hack, but if you really like doing the drag and drop thing to set contexts and want to do it before assigning projects to your inbox items, you could do it this way:

1. Select all the items in your inbox
2. Type shift-G to turn them into a group, typing some readily spotted string as the group name
3. Type cmd-[ to promote the group out of the Inbox to a project
4. Click on that project in the sidebar to select it (it will be named what you typed above)
5. Focus on that project
6. Switch to context mode (cmd-2)
7. Display context column, if not already doing so (View->Columns->Context)
8. Sort by context, if not already doing so (View->Sorting->Context)

Now you can drag and drop those actions on contexts. When you are done assigning contexts, switch back to planning/project mode (cmd-1), show all projects (control-cmd-F) and drag and drop them on projects. Delete the temporary project you created when you've filed all the actions away.