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Now that your new Finance Agent is ready to collect @Finance notes, you can create an @Finance context container in your input outline in the Personal Actions in Context container note. This will be for the one-off actions that don't constitute a project by themselves.

Create the note @Finance and fill in the OnAdd so that subsequent child notes will be properly attributed to the @Finance family and will be collected by the Finance Agent.

OnAdd: Prototype=*Finance; Importance=5

Similarly, you can create new finance projects in your Personal Projects and Objectives container. Because I have a number of projects, I created a Finance Objectives container note first. Each of the notes added to this container will be assigned to the Project prototype using OnAdd.

OnAdd: Prototype=*Project

Previously, one would then fill in each new project's OnAdd field separately so that the project's child notes would be properly assigned to the *Finance prototype.

But now I can pre-fill each projects OnAdd from the Finance Objectives note with a nested OnAdd.

OnAdd: OnAdd="Prototype=*Finance; Importance=5; "; Prototype=*Project

Each new project note will now be assigned to the *Project prototype and it's OnAdd will be pre-filled with Prototype=*Finance; Importance=5;.

To make things even more automatic, the prototype note for *Objectives has a common generic nested OnAdd statement that I can change when I create new Objective container notes and assign them to the *Objective prototype.

I use *Office because it is the context I am most likely to use when creating new objectives.

OnAdd: OnAdd="Prototype=*Office; Importance=5"; Prototype=*Project

Now when I add a new Objective assign to the *Objective prototype, OnAdd is pre-filled. I simply change Prototype=*Office to whatever context the projects will most likely use. This prototype will now cascade down from the Objective container note to the project and action notes within it.

Once it is set up, it's easy to use. New projects and actions will be automatically assigned to the *Finance prototype. And you can rest assured that your trusted system is capturing and displaying all your *Finance action items. All you have to do is get it done!

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