Here's another suggestion:
you can focus on a project by control+clicking (right+click) on a project and select focus.
Then in context mode select the contexts folder
All actions will be shown in the order that you have in your project.
You could also try OmniPlan to see if that works the way you want to work.
http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omniplan/
Or there's basecamp or any other number of project software tools out there.