New "end" state, rather than always "Done"?

Feature Discussion
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Not all tasks get completed when they reach the end of their lives, some are abandoned. The “Done” state comes with some implication that the task has been completed, so I think it’s warranted to have another final state for tasks that are not “Done”. I don’t want to delete these tasks because I want a record of them not having been completed, but I also don’t want to see them with a green checkmark and think that they were completed.

Could we get an “Abandoned” state or something similar? Something that could also be filtered out as a non-active task, but also not “Done”.

As I was writing this post, some other considerations came to mind:

  • This might also imply the ability to have an “Abandoned” bucket, similar to the “Done” bucket.
  • Maybe this is a niche subset of task archiving?
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My first thought reading this was “this sounds like archiving”, so what would you say makes this different from archiving individual tasks?

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Maybe nothing. I had the same thought, but only after I had typed out the post. Archiving would totally satisfy this need.