[Feature Request] Quickly add a context

[Mooie]

Firstly, I should say how much I like Ultralist and its clean and simple rationale. I understand how important it is to keep things simple and how easy it is for software to bloat as more is added. I get less is often more.

I'm using Ultralist only on the command line. And, having used Ultralist for just a day, there seems to be an omission, as I can't see a quick way to add a context to an existing task. I can see how you can add other essentials like due dates and a project. But it appears you need to rewrite the task using the "edit" command to add a context. I understand that Ultralist is based largely on the GTD paradigm, which in turn is largely context-driven. So, a quick and easy way to add contexts seems essential to me.

Thank you to the developers and maintainers for all that you do.

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Another approach would be to add an append (and also a prepend) command to quickly add to a task.

[igbanam]

I'm a recent user as well, and I'm loving every minute of it.

I think contexts and projects are parsed out of the todo. So having an entrypoint just for either of them may be tricky.

It may make sense if your todo is something like

+project @alice schedule meeting

With this, it may make sense to have an entry point which prepends or appends contexts or projects. However, when you have the contexts and projects interpolated in the todo body, like…

schedule a meeting with @alice concerning +project

…it becomes difficult to figure out where the context fits in.

[sottey]

Hi all. I have made a fork of Ultralist called ultodo as I wanted to make some changes and didn't see any activity here. (Ultralist is amazing and appreciated, not a dig on gammons AT ALL)

I have implemented subject search (released) as well as a change to display the todo subject on archive/delete/completion ( #269) (not yet released, soon)) but wanted to weigh in on this one as well.

In ultodo, contexts are now known as tags. This is just a semantic change. So below when I say context I am referring to tags in ultodo....

Currently, to edit a context you would have to remove ALL the contexts from a todo:
ultralist e 70 context:none

then re-add the ones you wanted to keep as well as new ones:
ultralist e 70 context:home
ultralist e 71 context:errand

etc.

Hope that helps!

[igbanam]

I switched to TaskWarrior. There's a vit TUI tool which makes it easy to work with