Trash
Deleting a note does not destroy it. It goes to the trash.
Restoring
- Restore / Undo appears immediately after a deletion
- After that, restore from the trash view at any time
- Nothing is auto-purged on a timer: the trash keeps everything until you empty it
To get there: click the list header in Note view (NOTES ⇄ TRASH); on iOS, switch in the pull-down panel.
Emptying
Empty Trash removes everything permanently, and it syncs — the contents disappear from your other devices too.
A large trash asks twice
When the trash holds an unusually large number of items, Jotaid confirms again. That guard exists for one specific accident: a sync fault marking a mass of notes as deleted, after which a casual "empty" would put them beyond reach.
Deleting a Container Is Not Deleting Notes
Deleting a theme or project asks what to do with its contents: dissolve the container (children promoted to the parent) or delete everything. The first is the default — what you usually want to undo is the grouping, not the notes.
Deleting a node touches no notes at all: the [[ ]] in their bodies reverts to ordinary text.
Reclaiming Space
Emptying the trash does not immediately return disk space — the database file keeps the holes. Settings → Storage → Clean Storage compacts the database and frees the space held by deleted images.
That optimisation pauses automatically while a sync is in flight, so the two never rewrite the same store at once.
Next Steps
- Backup & Restore — Take one before emptying
- Sync — Deletions travel too
- Themes — Dissolving a container versus deleting its contents