[AmberV]

No, I'm not assuming that. I'm talking about my own usage patterns here. I know for a fact that 99% of these tasks are never going to change until they become irrelevant. Then I'll make a new one. I don't keep notes on these things usually, and if I do, I just add as addenda to the original note.

I keep an extraordinary amount of archival data, too. But I draw the line at machine generated data that serves me no purpose, and transient mundane things that have no future value. I don't keep gigabytes of crash logs, for instance. I don't need to know what I bought at Target 7 years ago, either.

Neither of us is going to convince the other of anything, which is precisely why I suggested that this sort of behaviour be an option. There are people who do not need 80,000 emails and several hundred "buy milk" actions, and there are people that do.