[Shotster]

Actions lacking both a project and context do not show up in the No Context bin (top of the sidebar when in Context mode). They have no context, so shouldn't they be visible?

-Steve

[Shotster]

This is particularly bothersome since it's precisely those actions with unassigned contexts that I wish to process (assign to a context) several at a time via multiple selection and drag and drop. I shouldn't be forced to assign them to a project first.

[Tim Wood]

Right now an action without a project is an inbox item -- it isn't considered actionable or even something you've committed to. Since you haven't committed to it, it isn't shown in context mode (so as not to ask you to act on something you haven't committed to doing or necessarily even broken up into actions).

Now, of course I say "right now" in that if you'd like the application to work a different way, please feel free to send feedback, but I wanted to just mention why this is happening.

[Shotster]

Originally Posted by Tim Wood

Right now an action without a project is an inbox item -- it isn't considered actionable or even something you've committed to. Since you haven't committed to it, it isn't shown in context mode (so as not to ask you to act on something you haven't committed to doing or necessarily even broken up into actions).

Thanks, for the explanation, Tim. So your statement implies that assigning an action to a project constitutes "committing" to it. I was unaware of that "hidden meaning" of project assignment. For me, the act of putting an action into my inbox constitutes my commitment, so I was bewildered when I didn't see them in a list in which they should appear according to the view criteria - i.e. no context.

I'd be interested to know how others think of this. I suppose it could be made into a preference setting.

-Steve

[ptone]

It seems that since there is already the method to auto-assign an inbox item to a single-action project (bucket) when you assign a context, that there be more than the one method of being able to add a context to an inbox item.

-P

[curt.clifton]

I definitely don't commit to items when the go into my Inbox. Commitment comes when they are processed into projects. If I have to think about commitment first, then I can't just throw ideas into my inbox. So, I like the current set up.