Not sure if anyone has suggested this before (not really feeling like digging trough the forums ), If so, sorry, but an mod to place quests that take place in certain parts/cities to be divided in some sort of Sub-Section

Say you have a few quests in Whiterun, and a few in Solitude etc. It would be handy to have sections that places the quests for that city/part in a section named after that city/part.

For example, You have four quests that have an destination in Whiterun. You open the journal, click on Whiterun, and see all the quests that have to be done there.

Sometimes the journal is a little confusing, with all quests on one list (like the misc quests)

Another option would be to sort the quest list by proximity, though grouping it by hold/region would clean things up a lot. What I've been doing in the meantime is just activating every quest I get, and using the map to see what's nearby. Compass becomes a bit of a cluster@#$% though, and clairvoyance won't work.