Trash

Trash is a safety net for your data: a deleted note doesn't vanish for good — it lands in a list where you can restore it or wipe it permanently. Under the hood it isn't a separate store but a view over the revision log: a note counts as "in the trash" when its most recent revision is a deletion. Any save or restore on top of that makes a non-deletion the newest revision, and the note automatically leaves the trash.

A nice property falls out of this approach: you can even restore a note that was deleted outside Notarium — for example, with the rm command in the filesystem. The log catches those deletions too.

One unified trash

Trash is a single place for everything deleted: both individual notes and whole spaces. In the interface these are filter tabs — All / Notes / Spaces — with a shared search that's always visible. The mechanics behind them differ, but to you it's a single Trash:

• Notes are restored back into their space.
• A space is restored in full — along with all its own trash and history.

The note list is server-side: pagination and title search scale to thousands of records. Each row shows who deleted the note and when; external deletions are flagged separately.

Restore

Restoring preserves the note's identity. That means it keeps the same stable identifier (notarium-id), and along with it the incoming links and history:

• the note returns to its original folder at its last known path;
• the user-defined slug and aliases from previous names are restored, so incoming [[Old name]] links resolve again instead of turning into broken links;
• a "restore" revision is written to the log.

You can restore a single note (with the button in its row) or a whole batch at once — via multi-select in the bottom bar or Select all N.

Permanent deletion

Permanent cleanup (Delete N forever) irreversibly erases a note's entire history and its associated data. It's only triggered by an explicit action: selecting rows or Select all N — with nothing selected, the bottom bar doesn't offer cleanup.

Trash has no automatic scheduled cleanup (after N days) — only an explicit action from the user.

Boundaries

• Restorability rests on the revision log. Without the metadata database, history survives only for the lifetime of the process: the trash stays available until the next restart, then disappears — with no error.
• If the body of a deleted note never passed through Notarium and couldn't be read at deletion time, the note will still show up in the trash but be flagged as unrestorable — so you see the boundary right away instead of losing the note silently.

You can open a deleted note by its link as usual — it opens in read-only mode under an In the trash banner, with buttons to restore or delete permanently.