[whpalmer4]

On your Mac, create a context mode perspective that groups your actions by start date. That will work on the iPad or iPhone, and you can use it to keep tabs on any actions where the start date is in the past. Usually, if I have something that I'm working on and am not going to finish the first day, at the end of the evening I'll go to the Forecast view and bump the start date ahead to the next day. The only place where I don't like to do that in my practice is if it is a repeating action of some sort — altering the start date might then affect the next one. In that case, I'll flag it.