This is something I was playing with when I added date tagging to archiving. But, it was put on hold as I haven't decided whether or not to format the tag like: @done(28 May 08) or like @done @date(28 May 08)

I like the way the first encapsulates the date, but I want to use the same format for all functions. This is primarily due to my vision for supporting dates in the future.

• I really like: @done(28 May 08)
  
• But can't do: @archive(28 May 08) because I loose the project name
• I'm currently using: @date(28 May 08)

So, yes...eventually it will work this way. As soon as you mark a task as complete, the date will be appended. I just have to make a decision as to which way I want to do it to make it easy for the future date functionalities (with the compatibility of TaskPaper taken into consideration).

Thanks for the suggestion!

After a little bit of thinking, I came to this question and further understanding:

Is the date of archiving really all that important? I'm not sure it is. But I do believe the date you completed the task would be important. Given this, we could easily add the date to the done tag like: @done(28 May 08) and still have the @date tag for when we need just an explicit date. We could then do things like @due(28 May 09).