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bcasteel

I like the idea of cancelled, too. I don't know if it'd be the right use of cancelled to say that you're not going to get around to it "for a while" (there's other ways you can do that with the current RTM), but that's more about how a person would use this feature than about whether the feature should exist.

In general, I think there's a difference between deleting and cancelling. I might delete a task if I've got a duplicate or something like that. But cancelling means that I'm not going to do the task, not that there was something wrong with the data that I'd entered for the task.

An example of using this might just be that I think I don't have to do something, so I cancel it, and then later I'm like, oh, I do need to do it after all! So I uncancel it (just like I can uncomplete). It wasn't that I'd used the cancel state to postpone a task, it's that I thought I could cancel doing it, and I needed a way to undo that.

(You could potentially use the trash bin idea from https://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/8974/ for the same functionality.)

Posted 7 months ago