this would be a great feature to add to crafting research, so when my character finishes researching a trait at 4 in the morning he just starts the next one. It would also help mitigate a small portion of the storage problem caused by crafting, in that stuff I have saved just to use for research would sit in inventory for less time.
I would not even care if the queue only went one item deep. This would still require a play to log on regularly, but there would be less lost time for normal human behavior like work and sleep.