[davisre]

Originally Posted by matt2

@davisre: thanks - that will help when switching perspectives, but the thing I'm struggling with that seems to happen freq in my workflow is, I'll have an action selected in my "next actions" context perspective, and I'll hit the "Switch" button to change to planning mode with that action still selected to review/change/adjust it.

Yes, I understand. You need to re-save your perspective after you turn on the due date column. It sounds like your perspective is saved with it turned off. But even then, you may sometimes need to do the "apply it twice" trick I mentioned above.

[matt2]

I might be misunderstanding you, but if I were to re-save the perspective as you suggest, after hitting the switch button to go to planning mode and adding the Due column - wouldn't my perspective button then take me into planning mode from then on, instead of context mode where I want it to put me?

i.e. my problem occurs when I *leave* the perspective via the switch button - I don't have the problem when I'm in my context-view-of-next-actions perspective.

[davisre]

Originally Posted by matt2

I might be misunderstanding you, but if I were to re-save the perspective as you suggest, after hitting the switch button to go to planning mode and adding the Due column - wouldn't my perspective button then take me into planning mode from then on, instead of context mode where I want it to put me?

Note that you can control which view a perspective will leave you in. Switch back before hitting save, or toggle the setting in the perspective window.