[whpalmer4]

Got it. My earlier post was incorrect, clearly, as stalled projects do show up in an active project list because they are a special case of active projects.

So how are you going about getting your projects into the stalled state? Putting start dates on the next action? If you do that, and have a sequential project, yes, adding a new action at the end of the list won't help, though it would work with a parallel project because the newly added action wouldn't be blocked by the start date(s) on the other action(s).

My guess is you aren't doing any reviews. I would just put the projects on hold, and take them off hold when I add things to them. Use the review process to make sure you have the right projects active. Doing without the reviews sounds like a recipe for disaster in your setup; file one email in the wrong place and you start work on the wrong project.