[AmberV]

Because I despise iCal. If I really wanted to use some external program to remind me of GTD specific tasks to do in my GTD program, I'd use the UNIX tool, Remind. But I really don't want to do that. The lack of recurrence and the need to use an external calendar program was why I dropped ThinkingRock ages ago. It seems reasonable to keep everything together. I'm all for delegating to specialist applications as opposed to monolith applications and all that, but this really seems to be splitting specialist hairs. :)

You are right on the math, I didn't express myself clearly. The fact is, I have a couple daily reminders and a weekly reminder for reviews, which is well over 1,500 junk archives after two years.

And this still doesn't address the fact that I have no use for a record of repeating actions, even for ones less routine than these reminders. I can simply look at the action, see its interval, and know that I've done it five times in the past year. I don't need to actually physically have five identical copies in an archive to know that.