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Originally Posted by AmberV
While it is true that a task that is waiting does not technically have a context at that moment, once its waiting status has been removed, it will have a context, and likely had one before. To strip the original context, and then rethink about replacing it later, perhaps even multiple times in the life of the task (as has been my experience, and in the quote you copy and pasted above), is a waste of time--and it breaks the rule of not doing the same thing more than once.

Finally, a task having a latent context and being waited on makes more sense than a task that has a context of "waiting for," which makes no sense at all, and isn't "Real GTD" either (whatever that is).
Well said, AmberV.
 
 




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