Getting an earlier version back

There’s no save button in Pellet — it writes as you type. Which raises a fair question: what happens when you delete a paragraph you wanted?

Every save is kept

Pellet snapshots each write, locally, on the device that made it. Open a note’s history and you get a list of earlier versions with the time each was written. Look at one, compare, and restore it if it’s the one you want.

This covers the ordinary disasters: text deleted and not noticed for an hour, a note overwritten with the wrong thing, an edit made in the wrong file.

Two things it is not

It’s not a backup. History lives on the same disk as your vault. A dead drive takes both. Use Time Machine, a cloud drive, an external disk — see where your notes live.

It’s not shared between devices. History is per-device, because it records what that machine did. Your laptop doesn’t hold the history of edits made on your phone.

Deleted notes

Deleting a note moves it to Pellet’s Trash, listed at the bottom of the sidebar, where you can restore it. Emptying the Trash is the point of no return — after that only your own backups can help.

Writes are atomic

A detail that matters more than it sounds. Every write goes to a temporary file, gets checked, and is then renamed into place. If the power dies mid-save you get the whole old file, never half a new one.

It’s the sort of thing you never notice working, and only ever notice missing.