Archiving and deleting

Two different ideas, and it’s worth keeping them apart.

Archiving

Archiving marks something as finished-and-filed. It stays in your vault, stays searchable, and stays linkable — it just stops showing up in the lists you look at day to day.

Use it for the completed project you might want to refer back to, the old client, the year that’s over.

The sidebar has an Archived entry showing everything archived, so it’s one click away rather than gone.

Tip

Archiving is usually the right move for finished work. Deleting is for things that were never worth keeping — a duplicate, a mistake, a test note.

The Trash

Deleting moves a note to Pellet’s Trash, listed at the bottom of the sidebar. Nothing is destroyed at that point — open the Trash and restore anything.

Emptying the Trash is the point of no return. After that only your own backups can bring something back.

What deleting a repeating task means

If a task repeats, deleting asks what you actually mean: this occurrence (skip today, keep the series) or the entire series. Choosing wrongly is easy, so it asks rather than guessing.

Sync never deletes for you

If you sync between devices, a conflict never resolves by throwing one version away — both are kept, and the loser becomes a clearly-named copy. Deletion is something you do, not something that happens to you.