[kmarkley]

Could someone explain to me the intended (or unintended but practical) use of inactive contexts vs contexts that do not allow next actions?

I think I sort of understand the idea of inactive contexts. You might have an action "Photograph the Grand Canyon" with a context @Vacation. If vacation doesn't start for another month, you might want to mark @Vacation as inactive to get it out of the way until then. The problem is that if @Vacation is inactive, then you can't assign an action to it. So if you remember that you also want to photograph Zion, you have to change the status of @Vacation back to active to assign this new action.

So there is something I'm not getting here.

And then what are contexts that don't allow next actions for? Actions that are assigned to a context that doesn't allow next actions appear in the context view if your filter is "All" or "Remaining", but not "Next" or "Available". But how is that useful?

Please clue me in. Thanks.