Contexts

Purpose

Control how you plan and view your day across various contexts like work, personal, or school.

Walkthrough

How to use

Creating a context · 1:38

You can create a context from by clicking on "Channels" in the left hand menu and then clicking "+ Create a context".

When you create a context you'll set a number of properties for your context:

Name:

This is what you'll see whenever you are interacting with the context. In the case of contexts, this should be high-level like "work", "school", "personal", etc.

Personal context:

If the items you will put in this context are of a personal nature, turn this toggle on. Items that are in a personal context won't be counted as "work time" when you are planning your day and they'll also never be visible to other workspace members, regardless of workspace visibility.

Default channel:

Toggle this on if you want new tasks you create to automatically be added to this context.

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Privacy Options

If you are in a Private Workspace or in a workspace all by yourself, you won't see the option to mark a context as private, as everything is already private to you.

If you mark a context as personal, it will always also be a private context.

Best practices

• If you are using Sunsama collaboratively, consider setting your default channel to a context or channel that is private or personal so that your tasks are hidden by default.
• If you want to change the context in view during daily planning or the today view you can use the Cmd L channel switcher.
• Make sure to designate your personal context as personal in the context's settings even if you are in a private workspace. This is useful for having personal tasks not count towards your workload.