Remove task without deleting or completing it

[Christoph]

@Kimberly_Nichols

Mark as complete: This doesn’t work for the times I opt not to do the recurring task because I like to track completed tasks so it makes it look like I accomplished more than I did.

This is what I do with those kinds of task, but to avoid falls impressions, I add [CANCELLED] to the beginning of the task title before I mark it as complete.

I do that also with tasks that I have started to work on but decided not to complete it.

I think it would be nice to have a built task status called “cancelled”, in addition to “complete” and “incomplete”.

Much can be learned from your list of cancelled tasks and it brings some honesty into into the workplace: Currently. Asana supports a work climate where the assumption is that everyone completes their tasks (eventually). That means, if you cancel a task, you do it “in secret”. You failed. You may even go as far as never really cancelling the task even for yourself, and your growing backlog will increase stress. So a “cancel” button in Asana is also a matter of sanity

If you think so too, vote on this feature request:

Mark a task as "Cancelled" instead of "Complete"

Sometimes we identify a task in a project early on and later the task is cancelled as we decide not to complete it. We don’t want to mark the task as “complete” because it was not actually done, but we don’t want to delete it from the project and lose the history either.