Archive notes

[boudika]

archive a note where it just becomes hidden but still exists.

I don’t know what the UX would be just that at a bare minimum it’s right click enabled on notes.

Use case or problem

Notes that become outdated I expect to stay out of sight.

Proposed solution

Archive notes.

Current workaround (optional)

Create a folder and store it there.

Related feature requests (optional)

There is a plugin request but I believe this to be equally valid posted here.

A good way to separate active from "archived" notes?

I know, folders. But say you’re seven folders deep in the hierarchy, and you really just have three notes here, and one of them is the one you want, and the other two are for stuff you’re already finished with. Clearly you want them to still be searchable, but you don’t necessarily want to see all of them in the folder hierarchy - and you DEFINITELY don’t want to have to make new “archived” folders inside every existing folder just to hide those notes. In fact - if you could, you’re probably …

[hogru]

+1

Bear has such a feature. You can archive a note and it’s gone from the list, search, … If you ever wanted to see it again you can select View -> Show Archive and you get a list of archived notes. From there you could Unarchive it and it shows up in the original location.

[Dor]

An equivalent to this in Obsidian would be to have an Archive folder and move notes to it.

[ProjectH]

As Dor said, you can create a folder named “Archive”. To make it appear at the bottom of the list, I precede the word “Archive” with the Chinese character “one”, like so:
一 Archive 一

or “three”:
三 Archive 三

or any other character of your choice.

[igor9silva]

Using an Archive folder is really not ideal, because other features won’t consider it.

For example, graph view will still show “Archived” notes.

I imported a thousand notes from Apple Notes where I used that pattern of having a global Archive folder, and also inner Archive folder inside other folders.

I really miss an actual archiving feature.