So far, this simple system works very well for me. In a weekly review, I promote things out of "month" into "week". "month" tells me what's coming down the pipe. "week" shows what I must do, or would like to do, over the next 5-7 days. If I clean up these tasks, or something is stalled (and thereby given the "waiting" context), I can promote a task from "week". "today" is what I'm committed to doing today. The "Kanban" perspective then shows me what's on my plate, and what's coming: While reviewing the previous two perspectives, I mark tasks of importance with the contexts "today", "week" or "month", to give me a sense of where they are loaded into the system. "Starting" is a scan for projects not yet in motion, but coming onto my radar: The perspective "Hotspots" is to check for upcoming due dates and items I've flagged as a warning to myself: I use OF's contexts & perspectives to kanban-ise the work I have in Shipping. Anything that has to be on my radar is in a folder called (even more euphemistically) "Shipping". I keep my backlog of projects in a folder euphemistically called "Later". The simplest system is to have three categories: backlog (for work to be done), doing (for work in progress), and done (a list of completed work for that warm inner glow of accomplishment).
Without going into a lengthy explanation, kanban is a system for visualising the work you have stacked up, and ensuring that you only have as much work as you can reasonably handle in front of you. Because I'm solidly invested in OF across a Mac, iPad and iPhone, I decided to see if I could bend OF to a kanban-style system. To me, this is a much better way of processing the day's work than contexts. I recently came across the " personal kanban" concept, and it rang all my bells. And because OmniFocus is built around contexts, I keep feeling that I'm wasting OF's horsepower. It doesn't matter how cleverly I devise them, they always prove to be a waste of time.
Much of GTD makes good sense, but I've found the notion of contexts to be a pernicious distraction.
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