diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 64e9c2632..cafbc41e8 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ Babej).
 - Show the active context in "context list", if any is active.
 - Fix "task edit" dropping annotation text after newlines.
 - Removed obsolete script 'context'.
+- Fix "project" verbosity info not showing without "footnote" being manually
+enabled.
 
 ------ current release ---------------------------
 
diff --git a/doc/man/taskrc.5.in b/doc/man/taskrc.5.in
index f712dd3e0..35fe0d126 100644
--- a/doc/man/taskrc.5.in
+++ b/doc/man/taskrc.5.in
@@ -275,6 +275,8 @@ control specific occasions when output is generated. This list may contain:
     sync       Feedback about sync
     filter     Shows the filter used in the command
 
+"affected", "new-id", "new-uuid" and "project" imply "footnote".
+
 Note that the "on" setting is equivalent to all the tokens being specified,
 and the "nothing" setting is equivalent to none of the tokens being specified.
 
diff --git a/src/Context.cpp b/src/Context.cpp
index 8bd251f92..12ff6718c 100644
--- a/src/Context.cpp
+++ b/src/Context.cpp
@@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ bool Context::color ()
 //      take the place of '0'.
 bool Context::verbose (const std::string& token)
 {
-  if (! verbosity.size ())
+  if (verbosity.empty ())
   {
     verbosity_legacy = config.getBoolean ("verbose");
     split (verbosity, config.get ("verbose"), ',');
@@ -517,24 +517,40 @@ bool Context::verbose (const std::string& token)
     // This odd test is to see if a Boolean-false value is a real one, which
     // means it is not 1/true/T/yes/on, but also should not be one of the
     // valid tokens either.
-    if (!verbosity_legacy               &&
-        verbosity.size ()               &&
-        verbosity[0]      != "nothing"  &&
-        verbosity[0]      != "blank"    &&  // This list must be complete.
-        verbosity[0]      != "header"   &&  //
-        verbosity[0]      != "footnote" &&  //
-        verbosity[0]      != "label"    &&  //
-        verbosity[0]      != "new-id"   &&  //
-        verbosity[0]      != "new-uuid" &&  //
-        verbosity[0]      != "affected" &&  //
-        verbosity[0]      != "edit"     &&  //
-        verbosity[0]      != "special"  &&  //
-        verbosity[0]      != "project"  &&  //
-        verbosity[0]      != "sync"     &&  //
-        verbosity[0]      != "filter")      //
+    if (!verbosity_legacy && ! verbosity.empty ())
     {
-      // This list emulates rc.verbose=off in version 1.9.4.
-      verbosity = {"blank", "label", "new-id", "edit"};
+      std::string v = *(verbosity.begin ());
+      if (v != "nothing"  &&
+          v != "blank"    &&  // This list must be complete.
+          v != "header"   &&  //
+          v != "footnote" &&  //
+          v != "label"    &&  //
+          v != "new-id"   &&  //
+          v != "new-uuid" &&  //
+          v != "affected" &&  //
+          v != "edit"     &&  //
+          v != "special"  &&  //
+          v != "project"  &&  //
+          v != "sync"     &&  //
+          v != "filter")      //
+      {
+        // This list emulates rc.verbose=off in version 1.9.4.
+        verbosity = {"blank", "label", "new-id", "edit"};
+      }
+    }
+
+    // Some flags imply "footnote" verbosity being active.  Make it so.
+    if (! verbosity.count ("footnote"))
+    {
+      // TODO: Some of these may not use footnotes yet.  They should.
+      for (auto flag : {"affected", "new-id", "new-uuid", "project"})
+      {
+        if (verbosity.count (flag))
+        {
+          verbosity.insert ("footnote");
+          break;
+        }
+      }
     }
   }
 
@@ -544,11 +560,11 @@ bool Context::verbose (const std::string& token)
 
   // rc.verbose=nothing overrides all.
   if (verbosity.size () == 1 &&
-      verbosity[0] == "nothing")
+      *(verbosity.begin ()) == "nothing")
     return false;
 
   // Specific token match.
-  if (std::find (verbosity.begin (), verbosity.end (), token) != verbosity.end ())
+  if (verbosity.count (token))
     return true;
 
   return false;
diff --git a/src/Context.h b/src/Context.h
index 64ea6f044..63bf5e853 100644
--- a/src/Context.h
+++ b/src/Context.h
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 #include <FS.h>
 #include <CLI.h>
 #include <Timer.h>
+#include <set>
 
 class Context
 {
@@ -95,7 +96,7 @@ public:
   bool                                run_gc;
 
   bool                                verbosity_legacy;
-  std::vector <std::string>           verbosity;
+  std::set <std::string>              verbosity;
   std::vector <std::string>           headers;
   std::vector <std::string>           footnotes;
   std::vector <std::string>           errors;
diff --git a/src/text.cpp b/src/text.cpp
index 80aec833e..0ed87a1c4 100644
--- a/src/text.cpp
+++ b/src/text.cpp
@@ -60,6 +60,25 @@ void wrapText (
     lines.push_back (line);
 }
 
+////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+void split (
+  std::set<std::string>& results,
+  const std::string& input,
+  const char delimiter)
+{
+  results.clear ();
+  std::string::size_type start = 0;
+  std::string::size_type i;
+  while ((i = input.find (delimiter, start)) != std::string::npos)
+  {
+    results.insert (input.substr (start, i - start));
+    start = i + 1;
+  }
+
+  if (input.length ())
+    results.insert (input.substr (start));
+}
+
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 void split (
   std::vector<std::string>& results,
diff --git a/src/text.h b/src/text.h
index 7f412e1f1..b0f79f780 100644
--- a/src/text.h
+++ b/src/text.h
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 #ifndef INCLUDED_TEXT
 #define INCLUDED_TEXT
 
+#include <set>
 #include <string>
 #include <vector>
 
@@ -39,6 +40,7 @@ std::string unquoteText (const std::string&);
 int longestWord (const std::string&);
 int longestLine (const std::string&);
 bool extractLine (std::string&, const std::string&, int, bool, unsigned int&);
+void split (std::set<std::string>&, const std::string&, const char);
 void split (std::vector<std::string>&, const std::string&, const char);
 void split (std::vector<std::string>&, const std::string&, const std::string&);
 void join (std::string&, const std::string&, const std::vector<std::string>&);