Brain Murmurs

The past couple of days I’ve been working on adding “contexts” to Mentat. This key component to the GTD methodology was a major feature request so it was first on our list of things to add to the Mentat system.

Contexts in Mentat will work like this - Although you have separate projects to keep all of your varied tasks separate and distinct (Work Projects, Grocery Lists, Chores at Home) - there are contexts which might be project independent and could help you filter down those tasks you can take care of when you are in a certain “mode”.

For instance, say you have some time to make a couple of phone calls - and luckily enough, you’ve made a special context called just that “Phone Calls To Make”. By pulling up the context view in Mentat, you will be able to see all of your tasks that you’ve marked with this context (whether they be phone calls you have to make for your “Work” project or your “Home Chores” project). Now that you are in a perfect opportunity to deal with this “context”, you can fire off all these tasks at once!

Contexts can be assigned by navigating to a specific task view. Or, in the Mentat Agenda, you can quickly switch between a project and context view to quickly drag tasks into your agenda using either filter.

I’m almost done incorporating this functionality - just doing some polish now. I hope to have something by the middle of next week, so stay tuned!

Garrett

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