Contexts are like sub-lists or sub-categories used in techniques such as GTD.  Various management techniques recommend sub-dividing your tasks into context lists.  You might like to check out the http://www.43Folders.com website which has lots of useful information and links about these techniques.  For example, you might want to put some tasks on a list that you would work on at the computer, or at work or perhaps at home.  To assign a context to a task, just embed the context name in the task, preceded by the @ character.

 

So continuing with our example, we might want to add a task to check out the 43folders website.  We give this task the context of  @Computer.

 

 

You can assign more than one context to a task. So you might have.

 

 

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If you do not add a context, the task is automatically given the context @Anywhere.

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There are some common contexts that can be entered in a abbreviated form.  A full list is given in the Context abbreviations section.

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