[jerf]

I think there are solutions, but whether or not they are the same for a large enough market is hard to tell.

I use a leaky bucket metaphor in my todo lists... if a given task sits on a list for too long, then it should more or less fall off. It wasn't as important as you thought. But this is anathema to how most of these systems work.

[lamontcg]

I tend to use my memory for my todo list, which accomplishes this quite naturally.

The key is to really address your feelings of guilt over the whole process of just forgetting about shit that was never that important to begin with.

Which I think is probably the biggest inherent problem with TODO apps (and Jira backlogs).

[edoceo]

I do: punt, punt, punt, dead.

[erredois]

When I read the article at first it resonated with me, but your solution solves it, just delete them. So I better add a task to my TODO to delete tasks once a month.