Trash & deleted notes

Deleting a note doesn't destroy it — Limestone moves it to a Trash collection (ADR-0052/0097), where it stays read-only until you restore it or it's purged.

Where Trash lives

Trash is pinned at the bottom of the collections sidebar, in the System group — Favorites, Skills, Memory, Trash — with Trash last. It only appears once you've deleted your first note.

Restoring & viewing

Open Trash and it looks like any collection, but read-only and decluttered to the essentials: each row shows the note's title, when it was Deleted, and its Original collection. Custom properties are hidden.

• Restore a note with the ↩ button to the left of its name — in the table row, and in the note header when you open it. It returns to its original collection (or, if that's gone, you're asked where to put it).
• Delete permanently removes a single note for good (from its open view).

Retention & emptying — Settings ▸ Trash

Settings ▸ Trash controls how long deleted notes are kept:

• Retention — pick how long notes stay in Trash before they're permanently deleted automatically: 7, 14, 30, 60, or 90 days (default 30). This is a per-vault policy, stored in the vault itself, so it's consistent across your devices and collaborators.
• Empty Trash now — permanently delete every note currently in the Trash (after a confirmation). This can't be undone.

The countdown on each trashed note ("removed in N days") reflects the retention you've set.