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I don't agree with the verb tagging personally. It's irrelevant, isn't? Someone need to "do" something. The particular word choice doesn't impact the necessity.

@who is the assignment

#what is the task name

@when is the due-date

!do is pointless to specify.

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`do` isn’t always the verb, though.

@JoeBloggs should !do #CakeBaking

vs

@JoeBloggs should !bake #Cake

EDIT: oh, I see, you tagging verbs more generally. I disagree. It adds context.

@JoeBloggs #Contract by Friday.

What about the contract? Review, sign, amend, shred?

You include the word like normal, I'm saying tagging it isn't going to be helpful in the long run. Not to mention you're already including the word "should" and now a bang too? Could have very simple language detection to identify the verb if that's the goal.

Tagging things implicitly groups them and imbues the ability to search/filter/organize by them. I just have a hard time envisioning a useful scenario in which you're looking at "Show me the # of taks by verb used"

While we use the word "should" on the landing page, in conversations is more flexible, hence the bang.

"@Meritt, can you please !inform the #delivery"

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