[curt.clifton]

To be clear, you want to see Remaining Actions in Planning View, but only those whose start date is coming up "real soon now". Is that right?

Fertilize the lawn in May sounds like a project. The Active Projects filter will hide projects with future start dates. (Pending shows them.) You could put an mid-April start date and a May due date on the project. Then use the Active Projects filter and the project will appear a couple of weeks before you need it.

That doesn't help for singleton actions, though. In practice I don't have enough deferred singleton actions that they bother me yet. Especially now that the singleton's are blue and contrast more with the gray deferred actions.

In general, I would before that any hiding of actions/projects be accomplished using the View Bar. If the system automatically hid future actions, then how would we know what was already captured?