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Where do you store potential future actions?

A lot of times, when defining the next action for a project, I think of other things that I MUST do sometime later in the project, but I can't do it yet, for whatever reason. Let's call these "potential future next actions".

How do you guys manage these potential future actions within a project (note: these actions are not someday maybe projects) WITHOUT creating a Gaant chart like system?

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