Thanks for posting a more complete and informed solution. Would this create a new filter? or would this filter be able to be applied to the my home work list? or would this be integrated into a report? Thanks for the discussion!

One idea is to create a report/dashboard with the similar information, integrating the desired filters (project they are on, but only if they have incomplete tasks assigned).Using reports in this way is great because the user will see the formatted information in the exact way you would like them to...

I too have found desire for being able to take time difference between two date fields to automatically calculate the turn-around-time for issues or tasks.

Thanks. I will start with the Kick-starts data importer tools.  

We have 30-40 tasks entered daily into a project to manage label production orders and printing. Most of the information is associated with custom fields. Can I create a daily set of tasks by importing data from another system (Navision) or importing from intermediate spreadsheet?