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Archive: put work aside without losing it

Archiving is "hidden but kept" — distinct from marking a Group done and distinct from Trash. An archived Group, Project, or Area drops out of your everyday list without being deleted; unarchive it whenever you need it again. Archiving a Project cascades to archive its child Groups; unarchiving does not cascade back.

A Group also archives itself automatically once it's done and hasn't shown up in any session for a configurable stretch of time (30 days by default) — the passive version of tidying up, so finished work doesn't sit in your active list forever just because you forgot to put it away.

Today that's one fixed rule. Richer automatic-archival rules — different thresholds per Area, archiving by staleness regardless of status, and similar — are still being defined.

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