[whpalmer4]

Hmm, I remember writing a response to this yesterday; I wonder what happened to it?

The situation you describe is a problem with any hierarchical system where the leaves don't contain enough information and the context in the hierarchy is hidden. Write your actions as if you are going to delegate them to an idiot; quite often, the idiot will be you, wondering just what it was that you wanted Future You to do. If there's some doubt, you can open the editor on the task and tap the button in the Info panel to hop to the containing project. On the Mac, click on the row handle to select the row, then right-click and select Focus in New Window.