Create new action that is needed by already existing action

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Migrated from the original issue at https://www.assembla.com/spaces/tracks-tickets/tickets/1426

Based on my mail to the mailing list/group: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/tracksapp/eIeIj3lWBCk

For me it seems to be a very usual thing to add a new action because this new action actually needs to be done before another already existing action. As an example, I might have the action "conceive a child" and after a while I come to the conclusion that this action depends on a new (to be created) action "find a woman". Currently it seems to be impossible to "spawn" new actions based on existing ones. However, it is possible to create new actions that depend on existing actions very easily.

I just saw that my "actions" are not really actionable in the sense that some prerequisites are missing and I should have thought about the whole process earlier. I might be approaching this from the wrong direction. However, I think that not everything you note using GTD is supposed to be worked out like that - I even think that adding intermediate steps is very common.

Originally reported by carsten.otto on May 5, 2013 at 15:08:38 (-0400) against version 2.2.2.git-master