## Back to GTD: Simplify your contexts Source URL:: <https://www.43folders.com/2006/07/31/simplify-contexts> This post is part of the periodic &amp;#8220;Back to GTD&amp;#8221; series, designed to help you improve your implementation of David Allen&amp;#8217;s Getting Things Done. As we&#39;ve noted before, GTD contexts lose a lot of their focusing power when ### Highlights > [!quote]+ %%Updated on Mon Mar 27 2023 23:08:39 GMT-0400%% > > This causes many of us to fashion more or less phoney-baloney &quot;sub-contexts&quot; that reflect some facet of the parent (e.g. &quot;@computer&quot; might contain &quot;@email,&quot; &quot;@web,&quot; &quot;@code,&quot; &quot;@print,&quot; and so on). While this makes terrific sense from a logical standpoint (and it can certainly have its uses), it doesn&#39;t reflect the true meaning of a context, at least in my own mind: &quot;what tools, resources, opportunities, and limitations are unique to this situation?&quot; or put slightly differently from the perspective of choosing tasks at a given time, &quot;what are the things I can&#39;t work on now given where I am and the tools to which I have access?&quot;