diff --git a/app/controllers/projects_controller.rb b/app/controllers/projects_controller.rb
index bf84e44d..b2489c7d 100644
--- a/app/controllers/projects_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/projects_controller.rb
@@ -186,6 +186,13 @@ class ProjectsController < ApplicationController
     init_not_done_counts(['project'])
   end
   
+  def actionize
+    @state = params['state']
+    @projects = current_user.projects.actionize(current_user.id, :state => @state) if @state
+    @contexts = current_user.contexts
+    init_not_done_counts(['project'])
+  end
+  
   protected
     
   def render_projects_html
diff --git a/app/models/user.rb b/app/models/user.rb
index bf84bbd3..75aeb36d 100644
--- a/app/models/user.rb
+++ b/app/models/user.rb
@@ -51,6 +51,21 @@ class User < ActiveRecord::Base
                 self.update_positions(projects.map{ |p| p.id })
                 return projects
               end
+              def actionize(user_id, scope_conditions = {})
+                @state = scope_conditions[:state]
+                query_state = ''
+                query_state = 'AND project.state = "' + @state +'" 'if @state
+                projects = Project.find_by_sql([
+                    "SELECT project.id, count(todo.id) as p_count " +
+                      "FROM projects as project " +
+                      "LEFT OUTER JOIN todos as todo ON todo.project_id = project.id "+
+                      "WHERE project.user_id = ? AND NOT todo.state='completed' " +
+                      query_state +
+                      " GROUP BY project.id ORDER by p_count DESC",user_id])
+                self.update_positions(projects.map{ |p| p.id })
+                projects = find(:all, :conditions => scope_conditions)
+                return projects
+              end
             end
   has_many :active_projects,
            :class_name => 'Project',
diff --git a/app/views/projects/_project_state_group.rhtml b/app/views/projects/_project_state_group.rhtml
index 6fe6ef21..32693f0f 100644
--- a/app/views/projects/_project_state_group.rhtml
+++ b/app/views/projects/_project_state_group.rhtml
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 <div class="project-state-group" id="list-<%= state %>-projects-container" <%= " style=\"display:none\"" if project_state_group.empty? %>>
   <h2><span id="<%= state %>-projects-count" class="badge"><%= project_state_group.length %></span><%= state.titlecase %> Projects</h2>
+  <div class="menu_sort"><span class="sort_separator">Sort&nbsp;</span>
   <div class="alpha_sort">
-    <%= link_to("Sort Alphabetically", alphabetize_projects_path(:state => state),
+    <%= link_to("Alphabetically", alphabetize_projects_path(:state => state),
                  :class => "alphabetize_link", :title => "Sort these projects alphabetically") %>
     <%  apply_behavior '.alphabetize_link:click', :prevent_default => true do |page, element|
           page.confirming 'Are you sure that you want to sort these projects alphabetically? This will replace the existing sort order.' do
@@ -10,10 +11,21 @@
             page << remote_to_href(:complete => "alphaSort.stopWaiting()")
           end
         end
+     %></div><span class="sort_separator">&nbsp;|&nbsp;</span><div class="tasks_sort">
+    <%= link_to("By number of tasks", actionize_projects_path(:state => state),
+                 :class => "actionize_link", :title => "Sort these projects by number of tasks") %>
+    <%  apply_behavior '.actionize_link:click', :prevent_default => true do |page, element|
+          page.confirming 'Are you sure that you want to sort these projects by the number of tasks? This will replace the existing sort order.' do
+            page << "tasksSort = this.up('.tasks_sort');
+                     tasksSort.startWaiting();"
+            page << remote_to_href(:complete => "tasksSort.stopWaiting()")
+          end
+        end
      %></div>
+  </div>
   
   <div id="list-<%= state %>-projects" class="project-list">
     <%= render :partial => 'project_listing', :collection => project_state_group %>
   </div>
   <%= sortable_element "list-#{state}-projects", get_listing_sortable_options("list-#{state}-projects") %>
-</div>
\ No newline at end of file
+</div>
diff --git a/app/views/projects/actionize.js.rjs b/app/views/projects/actionize.js.rjs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ccb10451
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/views/projects/actionize.js.rjs
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+list_id = "list-#{@state}-projects"
+page.replace_html list_id,
+                  :partial => 'project_listing',
+                  :collection => @projects
+page.sortable list_id, get_listing_sortable_options(list_id)
+                  
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/config/routes.rb b/config/routes.rb
index 50e29ff7..1b8bf1c3 100644
--- a/config/routes.rb
+++ b/config/routes.rb
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|
     projects.resources :todos, :name_prefix => "project_"
   end
 
+  map.resources :projects, :collection => {:order => :post, :actionize => :post} do |projects|
+    projects.resources :todos, :name_prefix => "project_"
+  end
+
   map.resources :todos,
                 :member => {:toggle_check => :put, :toggle_star => :put},
                 :collection => {:check_deferred => :post, :filter_to_context => :post, :filter_to_project => :post}
diff --git a/public/stylesheets/standard.css b/public/stylesheets/standard.css
index 3b31fcd7..ea8f0dc5 100644
--- a/public/stylesheets/standard.css
+++ b/public/stylesheets/standard.css
@@ -692,11 +692,14 @@ div#list-active-projects, div#list-hidden-projects, div#list-completed-projects,
     margin:20px 0px 8px 13px
 }
 
-div.alpha_sort {
+div.menu_sort {
     margin-top:-20px;
     float:right;
 }
 
+div.alpha_sort, div.tasks_sort,span.sort_separator {
+    float:left;
+}
 
 .container td {
     border: none;
diff --git a/test/functional/projects_controller_test.rb b/test/functional/projects_controller_test.rb
index f97a892a..ee3df3e4 100644
--- a/test/functional/projects_controller_test.rb
+++ b/test/functional/projects_controller_test.rb
@@ -218,6 +218,15 @@ class ProjectsControllerTest < TodoContainerControllerTestBase
     get :index, { :format => "txt", :token => users(:admin_user).token }
     assert_response :ok
   end
+
+  def test_actionize_sorts_active_projects_by_number_of_tasks
+    login_as :admin_user
+    u = users(:admin_user)
+    post :actionize, :state => "active", :format => 'js'
+    assert_equal 1, projects(:gardenclean).position 
+    assert_equal 2, projects(:timemachine).position 
+    assert_equal 3, projects(:moremoney).position
+  end
   
   def test_alphabetize_sorts_active_projects_alphabetically
     login_as :admin_user