[steve]

One of the big holes in my system is being able to find projects without NA's. In theory, I would find these during my weekly reviews. I would love to be able to apply a filter and find projects without NA's or have some sort of badge or color change for projects in need of a NA.

Would this be helpful?
How are people working around this without some sort of filter or badge?

Curt Clifton has an applescript which will add "Missing NA:" to each project that is missing NA's. Although this works well, I find it cumbersome to constantly fiddle with deleting "Missing NA:"

[SpiralOcean]

I concur... other threads have been talking about this almost since the inception of the Alpha.

Put in the request through the feedback form if you agree.

[curt.clifton]

I definitely would like some built-in system for identifying projects and actions groups without next actions. My script is really just a hack until Omni bakes this in. In the interim, would it be helpful to add another script for clearing the "Missing NA:" prefixes that my first script leaves behind?

[curt.clifton]

Here's a quick script that I banged together for clearing the Missing NA prefixes: Clear “Missing NA” Prefixes.zip This hasn't been tested as much as I'd like, so I'm not putting it on my software page yet. Please try it and let me know if it works for you. If it seems stable I'll post it to the main site.

The script clears any "Missing NA" prefixes from the selected items in OF. Any items that lack the prefix should be left unchanged.

[steve]

Curt,

Thanks for doing this. I will definitely test it out and let you know how it works. Typically, when I run your script I end up with 20 projects that are missing NA's. Manually undoing the title of the project after having added NA's is always a block to me actually running the script.

Steve

[Tim Wood]

We have bugs logged for:

<bug://bugs/38655> (mark projects when they do / don't have a next action)
<bug://bugs/38053> (Request: Filter to see only projects with no tasks/single items ("blocked projects"))

so feel free to reference those in feature requests to omnifocus@omnigroup.com. Neither of these are currently scheduled for 1.0, though this would definitely be useful in some fashion.

As the OP noted, one reason these didn't make it in is that this overlaps with project reviews -- a weekly review of active projects will already let you find blocked projects. Now, in some cases, you might find a more timely notification useful, so it would be helpful to explain situations where you'd use this where a weekly review wouldn't be sufficient.