Archive
Completed work. Never deleted, just moved. The vault only grows.
Why Nothing Gets Deleted
Deletion is a lossy operation. Six months from now you will not remember why you killed that project or why that task never shipped. The archive preserves the full paper trail so your future self can reconstruct the reasoning without guessing.
Moving a file to the archive also keeps the live folders lean, so tasks/ and projects/ only ever show what is actually active.
What Lives Here
- archive/tasks/ — completed tasks (also symlinked from tasks/done/)
- archive/projects/ — shipped or killed projects
- archive/inbox/ — legacy processed inbox items (deprecated pattern)
Retrieval
Archived files are still indexed by Obsidian, still searchable, still linkable. When Claude is asked why did we decide X, the archive is one of the places it will look. Archiving hides a file from your daily attention without hiding it from the system's memory.