[whpalmer4]

The perspective question is a little bit tricky. To eliminate the remaining actions from your On Hold projects, you need to start in Project mode, set the Project filter to Active, then select all the projects in the sidebar, right-click (or control-click) and choose Focus. Now you have a Project mode window showing only the active projects, and if you switch to context mode, it will only show the actions from the active projects. Make your view settings, save as a perspective, and you should be able to sync it over to your iPad. The rub here is that when your list of active projects changes (new projects added, old ones finished or dropped or put on hold), your perspective will not automatically be updated. If your active project list is relatively stable, the need to rebuild that perspective on occasion shouldn't be a big issue.

Another way to approach this would be to change the availability filter to Available instead of Remaining. That would obviously filter out all the material from On Hold projects and show you only the items you could actually work on right now. This is fine for a view where you are choosing what to work on, but not so useful if you need to look at what is beyond the next action.

Yet another tactic you could use if you don't like rebuilding the perspective would be to use a perspective that focuses on a folder. You could have two top-level folders, one with active work and the other with stuff that is inactive. To build the perspective, select the active folder, right-or-control-click and select Focus, switch to Context mode, and set up your display. Save as a perspective and sync to iPad. You could even mark the inactive folder as dropped. Now you just move a project into the active folder when you are working on it, and the inactive folder when it goes into hibernation. You can of course have additional organizational structure under those two top-level folders.

My recommendation is that even if one of these approaches seems superior to the others, that you try them all out as a familiarization exercise. You can set up some test projects in a folder or two at the bottom of the sidebar so you don't have to experiment on your production data. Also, use the Contact Omni item in the gear menu on the iPad to send in a vote for supporting Project mode perspectives on the iPad (and any other changes you'd like — feedback sent that way is guaranteed to be seen and counted when making decisions about development scheduling, unlike forum posts).