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I can't figure out how to "discard but keep" a story... I was thinking reject was the answer, but I'm not so sure since when I reject it, the story still sits in my current column with a restart button visible.

Sometimes I go down the wrong track, create a Story (feature) that I realize later I don't need or want. However, I don't want to trash it - I'd like to keep it for future reference, but I want it to go away somewhere - not sit in my current column forever.

Does anyone know how to do this?

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Pivotal Support explains just exactly why nobody posted an answer...

Short Answer:

not possible

Long Answer (from Pivotal Support):

Unfortunately there's not a way to archive stories in Tracker and as you've discovered, the reject button doesn't remove stories from Current.

In these cases we recommend creating a label describing the situation (“on-hold”, “not reproducible”, won't fix", etc.) to apply to such stories, and then move the story to the bottom of the Icebox along with a concise comment explaining the decision (you must "unstart" the story before it can be moved to the Icebox). You can also use a release marker in the icebox to separate stories like this from others, as in the attached screenshot.​

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Here is a post by Pivotal themselves that explains what they do with such stories.

https://twitter.com/pivotaltracker/status/337950414244810753

Basically, they mark as duplicate, won't fix, won't implement, etc. After, they set the story points to 0. Then they accept the story so it is still able to be searched on their project. The story points as 0 is important so that accepting the story doesn't increase your velocity for work that essentially wasn't done.

The post is a little old (3 years at time of writing, with 1 year old update), but I haven't found a better way thus far.

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