The Trash, and what asks first

Get a deleted note back from the Trash, and know what NotaBene asks before anything of yours is deleted.

The Trash

A note you delete goes to Trash in the sidebar. It keeps everything — its text, attachments and all — until the Trash is emptied. To empty it, right-click Trash in the sidebar (on iPhone and iPad, touch and hold it) and choose Empty Trash…; it asks first.

In the Trash, a note can only be restored or deleted permanently:

Restore puts the note back. If it was in your Shortcuts, its shortcut comes back in its place too.
Delete Permanently removes it for good, and always asks first.

On iPhone and iPad, these two are what a swipe on a note in the Trash shows.

When you delete the note you are reading, the note under it in the list takes its place and opens — or the one above it, if the deleted note was the last. The list stays where it was rather than jumping back to the top.

Delete with the keyboard

⌘⌫ acts on what is picked out in the list:

With several notes selected, it asks the same question as the bin at the foot of the list — Move 3 notes to Trash? — and acts on those notes. In the Trash it asks Delete 3 notes permanently?
With nothing selected, it acts on the open note. In the Trash, that note is deleted for good once you confirm.

The menu item says which it will do: Move to Trash in a notebook, Delete Permanently in the Trash.

What asks first

Everything that deletes something of yours is red, has a bin on it, and asks before it goes — in a menu, in a swipe, or as a button in a form or on a page. The question says what will go and, where it matters, what will stay — for example, that the notes a saved search finds are not deleted, or that an event is deleted from the Calendar app as well.

That covers:

notes — moving one to the Trash asks if your setting says so (Settings ▸ Confirm moving notes to Trash), a batch of selected notes always asks, and Delete Permanently always asks;
tasks, with or without subtasks, and people;
notebooks, tags and saved searches;
a task's files, comments and statuses;
files, recordings, transcripts and tables in a note;
reminders and calendar events, including a single event;
a custom callout, and all your notes at once;
closing the picture markup with changes you haven't kept.

Regenerate Transcript asks too when a recording already has a transcript, because the new one replaces it.

Small edits you can simply undo don't ask: taking a tag off a note, a shortcut out of Shortcuts or a notebook out of a stack, removing a row or column from a table, clearing a task's due date, or removing one mark from a picture or a PDF.