Does anyone use email for @Contexts

[gtd solo-studente]

Fellow GTDers'

Does anyone use email for @Contexts

If so, how and to what degree?

Thank you very much

 

[mcogilvie]

Not now, but in the distant past I tried something like you might have in mind. It did not work,

 

[FocusGuy]

Fellow GTDers'

Does anyone use email for @Contexts

If so, how and to what degree?

Thank you very much

I tried but it did not work. I used flags on my Mac and later folders.

 

[Quicksilver10]

Yes. I currently have 7 Next Actions in the context Email. As I can read and write emails on my Mac, iPhone and iPad, I don't find a context like @ Mac very helpful for these actions. Also, my "iMac" context has over 100 actions, so adding yet more by including email actions is not an attractive option. In theory, if I am using my email client, on any device, then it's a good moment to engage with some actions in my Email context. Do I use the context like this in practice? Not very much. Do I ever engage in actions prompted by context? Probably not very much! So why do I bother with contexts at all? To be honest, mainly to chunk up what would otherwise be a huge and amorphous list of Next Actions, which makes it (for me) easier to review. But I am straying off topic...

 

[Sarahsuccess]

I tried but it did not work. I used flags on my Mac and later folders.

Not now, but in the distant past I tried something like you might have in mind. It did not work,

If you want to send an email that will take more than two minutes to compose how do you remind yourself? What context/list do you put it in?

 

[Ariadne Marques]

Yes, I have a @email context right now. I see it as a sub-category of my @computer list. I use it mostly for a new message thread where I need to write to request something or relay information. Example: "Email x to request quotation for project Y", "Email X to organize site visit". "Email X the files he requested at the meeting".
For emails replies (already part of an ongoing thread) I still use a folder in my Outlook "ACTION-REPLY" for answers I must work on that will take more than 2 minutes.

 

[mcogilvie]

If you want to send an email that will take more than two minutes to compose how do you remind yourself? What context/list do you put it in?

Either @any or @computer. @any is short for anywhere. In practice I do a lot of email on a tablet. If I need a big screen or access to more than a small amount of information, it’s on @computer. Neither email nor internet are helpful contexts for me. It seems helpful at first but quickly drags down productivity because it’s more list to check.