Archives
After writing a message, you can archive it for future reference. Archiving moves the note from the Inbox to the Archives — there is no separate "Search" page; searching across your notes is handled by Pile View instead.
Archiving a Message
When you finish writing a message, archive it using the command palette (Mod+K → "Archive") or the Archive button in the Note Tray toolbar's action cluster. The note is moved to archives/ in your workspace as the next available numbered slot:
archives/1.md
archives/2.md
... The move is collision-safe: the destination number is always max(existing archive numbers) + 1, so two notes can never collide. No frontmatter is injected on the move — the content travels verbatim. title, created_at, and updated_at are not auto-stamped by the default schema; the workspace's own creation and update timestamps for the entry are authoritative. If your workspace declares a frontmatter-schema.json with auto: "on-create" / auto: "on-save" fields, those are still applied — see Auto-managed frontmatter fields.
If Format on Archive is enabled in Settings → General, the markdown is automatically formatted before the move.
Archives Tray
Navigate to Archives from the toolbar. This opens the same Note Tray provider the Inbox uses, pointed at the archives/ directory instead of inbox/:
The Note Tray toolbar shows every archived numbered note (
N.md) plus any named (non-numeric).mdfile, in the same numbered-then-named order as the Inbox.Click a pill to open that note in the editor with the same edit / preview toggle and layout switcher (standard editor, vertical timeline, horizontal timeline) as the Inbox.
Edits auto-save with the same short debounce as notes — there is no separate Edit/Save/Cancel mode.
Changes from other devices
Archives are workspace content, so an edit made on another device signed into the same workspace arrives through sync and the tray refreshes on its own — the same way it does for notes. You do not need to reload or re-open the tray.
Searching Your Notes
There is no dedicated Search page. Instead, open Pile View from any Note Tray leaf (command palette or your configured shortcut) and use its scope toggle:
This tray — searches only the workspace directory the Pile View was opened from (e.g. just
archives/).All — aggregates every Note Tray directory (Inbox, Archives, and any configured move-button targets) into one searchable set, with a directory badge on each card so you know where a result lives.
The gear options flyout on Pile View's filter input exposes an exact phrase toggle (case-insensitive contiguous match over the full note body, not just token matching) and a sort control (created / updated, ascending or descending). See Pile View for the full reference.
Message Format
Archived messages are plain markdown files — no frontmatter is required or auto-injected by the default schema:
# Meeting Followup Email
Content goes here.If you declare a custom frontmatter-schema.json (see Frontmatter schema), your declared fields — including any auto-managed timestamps — are applied on archive exactly as they are on every other save.