[whpalmer4]

If you look at remaining actions, you're going to see everything that isn't completed or dropped, yes. Even if you set a future start date on something, it would still appear, although it would be styled as blocked. If you view available actions, instead, you wouldn't see actions with future start dates, and you wouldn't see actions that are behind the first action could do in any given sequence. And, of course, the next actions view would give you just next actions, which seemed to be what you originally requested.

But there's nothing that says you have to keep the same view options all the time, or always use the same perspective. Perspectives are cheap, and easy to modify. Remember, a perspective remembers what you've selected in the left hand pane, so you can make a perspective that not only customizes the view bar settings, but also the projects or contexts displayed. If one set of tasks is best viewed as next actions, and another as available, or remaining, make a perspective for each one. They also remember printer settings, window sizes, and so on.