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+# Deleted Task Statistics
+
+Consider how the system should remember lightweight statistics for tasks that
+have been deleted, while still allowing deleted tasks to be fully removed from
+task persistence.
+
+The likely direction is a small, separate deletion-statistics record rather than
+keeping deleted task rows. One possible shape is a table that stores only the
+deleted task name and the timestamp when it was deleted. This needs more design
+work because it has wider implications for stats, privacy, export, backup, and
+future cleanup behavior.