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(I know the ninjas like to see features requested via email, but I'm curious about feedback from forum users. I'll send this via email as well.)

First of all, I'm loving OmniFocus, but there is one particular feature that would smooth out my workflow:

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After marking the last remaining task in a project as completed, I would like to be asked by the program whether I would like to

a) create a next action for the project
b) mark the project completed
c) do nothing.
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I know some people would hate this, but having this as an option would be very helpful to me (and I imagine some others). It would certainly be "off" by default.

The particular use case I'm dealing with is when I mark a task as done from within the context view. I don't notice that I don't have a next action for the project until I do a review of my projects.

I'm thinking that a version of the quick input panel would pop up if there were no actions left in the project, and I could add a new action to the project (or mark the project as completed, or do nothing) without leaving the context view.

I have a feeling that this has been discussed before, but a quick search of the forums didn't bring up any results. Ken Case mentioned that 1.6 will bring a "autocomplete when children are complete" feature, but for my workflow changing the feature on a per-project basis would be a bit of overkill, and it wouldn't deal with the "I want to be reminded that this is the last remaining action on this project" issue.

I'd love to get folks' perspective on why this would our wouldn't be a good idea. (By the way, a similar function in the iPhone app would also be great.)

Last edited by jagordon; 2009-02-04 at 12:25 AM.. Reason: Vague Title :)