I hope Obsidian takes a page from Apple Notes’ book and simply adds a Trash folder.
I had to download and configure separate software (“Hazel”) to automate the deletion of files trashed more than 30 days ago :\
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You can put me in the “untitled” club.
You can also put me in the “accidentally created a folder instead of a note” club. I don’t know how many times I paste a title to the clipboard, and I select “new folder” instead of “new note”.
Back on topic, I just learned about about the .trash folder, and I’m on the fence as to whether to turn it on or not. It comes down to “what benefit does turning this on get me?”
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“what benefit does turning this on get me?”
The fact that this is not here by default is a reason for me to put Obsidian down.
If I delete something to the system trash, I have to leave the application, struggle to find which item I wish to recover (perhaps its an image), and move it back.
Or I leave the application, use file explorer to locate my Obsidian directory and browse to the .trash folder, and move it back to what folder it was (maybe I’ve forgotten).
Both of these options disrupts workflow and trail of thoughts.
Its ridiculous there is no way to access the .trash folder inside Obsidian.
There are so many basic features like this missing. It isn’t necessarily a good thing that developers need to create plugins to do what the app should offer by default.