Do not complete items when archiving

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Hi,

First, I would like to thank Andrei for this great product. I am in the “evaluation period” of the Everdo app, and I really like to use it.

Here is my issue: some projects/tasks get interrupted and I would like to be able to archive them rather then to delete them. However, when I do that, they are automatically marked as completed.

These items are not a good fit for the “someday” status, since they are not envisioned to be restarted later. But sometime it happens that I have to rescue them, and with all the items marked as completed, I totally loose track of what the actual situation of tose items were.

Would it make sense to change this behavior?

Thank you again and Happy New Year!

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Hello and Happy New Year!

Thank you for taking time to write up your suggestion.

As you surely noticed, the Archive was intended to be a permanent place to store completed items. So the use case you have suggested was not considered before. In principle, I don’t see a problem with archiving non-completed items. But I think in the current implementation there are places in code that assume all archived items are completed, so it’s not an easy change to simply allow archival of incomplete items. I will enter this suggestion into a backlog with low priority, since it seems less impactful than some other pending features.