You know that you can focus on one context from the home page by clicking on the context title? That will take you to the context/[context_name] page. That's the way I work: the home page gives me a visual impression of everything I have to do, then if I want to concentrate on emails, I click the 'emails' context and just work on that page, then switch back to home when I'm done. That way you don't really need the context list.

Having said that, it should probably be a preference. Some people work more in projects and others work more in contexts. I'll work it into preferences which might appear somewhere around 1.1.

I love Tracks and have been using it for a few weeks now, but I have to agree that the current home page can be overwhelming, while the idea of GTD is to prevent overwhelm.

For me the current context-centric layout is fine, but that seeing all actions for every context presents way too much information which makes for too long a page, and the ironic result is that I lose track of both the forest and the trees.

What would be better for me would be to have the home page just show me things due in the next week. I'd still want to be able to click a link to see everything (what's on the current home page), of course.

Perhaps this should be a preference? Display how many days worth on the home page; it might default to zero (to display the page as it currently exists), while I'd set it to 7 to just see a week's worth.

...and stumbling again over that ticket I want to add my thoughts, too ;)

First I would agree with either "context more relevant than projects" following the GTD ideas and "the home page of tracks might be a bit too overwhelming".
I don't want just to put therories in here: what I did for example as a temporary workaround: I've set up not 43 but 13 new contexts - "Jan"-"Dec" and "next year" to clean up my views of either really unimportant and far away stuff.
That might sound funny or unprofessional but I have either no better idea or no time to work around that more geeky...

IMHO the "43 folders concept" is completely missing so far (don't need to mention that it should be possible to do that in a software much smarter rather than with paper).

What I've really put my attention at, are things like discussed in #48 (Multi-Context/Tag(s|ging)), #31 (list of next actions assigned a due date across all contexts and projects) and #114 (smart "Someday Maybe" context).

I know that some of those aren't easy and quick to achieve (or with minor modifications) I just can't wait because I am so enthusiastic about Tracks ;)

BTW: does Trac have something like a "feature-request-only-view"? Just asking because I noticed that a few requests appeared much more than once. In addition to that I already had problems to find my own...
If not: wouldn't it be nice to have it separated from the bugs?

closing. 3.0 will drop the sidebar