[Ken Case]

Thanks for bearing with our UI inconsistencies during this pre-beta period, and sorry for the confusion surrounding action groups! The current UI is the way it is because we only recently (late last week) came to a firm plan for exactly what they are and how they should work. (Your feedback has helped with that, thank you!)

So, what are they? They're groups of actions. That's it. They're not actions themselves (though they might have started life that way, before you realized they weren't actionable), and they're not projects (though you can promote them to a project or demote a project to an action group in another project).

They're not projects of their own, so they won't appear in the sidebar, you won't be able to focus on them, and they won't have project-only states like "on hold" (points 1-3 above).

They will no longer appear in Context view (point 4), which is a change we made last week.

The user interface for action groups (point 5) will change to be a little less like actions and a little more like projects, but not quite like either: we'll add the parallel/sequential control (so you can see its state without checking the contextual menu) and we might hide the default context (so that it's clear that it's not actionable itself).

The state of an action group will be derived from the state of its actions: it will automatically be marked complete when you complete all its actions (so you will no longer have to switch from context view back to project view to complete it before proceeding to a subsequent action), its estimated time will be the sum of the estimated time of its actions, etc.

Thanks again for your patience and your feedback!