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by millhouse1112 599 days ago
Good idea. It's simple to track this. What idle duration limit makes sense for deletion?
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90 days since last view, or 1 year if you can afford to be generous. For "slow burn" projects with other people checklists easily go longer than a week without being looked at.
That's a great question! And fortunately, one where you can use human behavior as a guide: if someone is actively using a checklist it seems reasonable to presume they're at least accessing it once a day. So as a quick first-pass, double that time period to two days. Also start collecting usage metrics and mine those in the future to further refine this number.
User initiated; maybe some arbitrarily long duration measured in years.