Tutorial 6: Drop things in the inbox
When some new chunk of work comes along, you don't necessarily want to go find the right project, add the action, and assign a context. For the time being, you can put newly-arrived stuff in the inbox.
Switch to planning mode.
Click the Inbox in the sidebar.
Press Return to create a new inbox item.
Type as descriptive a title as you want to give the item for now.
Keep pressing return and adding whatever bits of work come to mind.
That's it. You can add as much information to the inbox as you need, using it as a kind of holding area for stuff you haven't yet gotten around to fully adding to your library of projects. For extra-speedy brain-dumping action, try the quick entry window.
Whenever you're ready, you can reword the items into proper actions, assign a project and a context to each item, then click the Clean Up button in the toolbar. The items shuffle off to where they belong. If you want to turn an inbox item into a project instead of an action, drag it to the sidebar.