Guide Delete & Restore

Deleting and Restoring Content

Deleting in Scholarly is reversible. When you delete an item, it moves to a Deleted tab instead of disappearing — so if you clear out the wrong version of a client report, you can bring it back in two clicks.

Deleting an Item

You can delete any content item — a PDF, flashcard deck, podcast, video, recording, page, or research session — from a few places:

  • Three-dot menu -- Open the ⋮ menu on a content row (or on the item's own page) and choose Delete.
  • Right-click -- On the All Content page, right-click any row and choose Delete.
  • Inside a project -- Every item in a project has Delete in its menu too. See below.
  • From chat -- Ask for it: "delete everything in this project older than June." See Managing Your Library from Chat.

The item leaves your Home page, library, search, and any folders it was in. Nothing else about it is changed — its cards, transcript, or notes are all kept.

An Undo appears as soon as you delete. The row doesn't quietly vanish: a short-lived Undo sits where it was, and taking it puts the item straight back, including into the folder it came from. If you miss the Undo, the Deleted tab below has it.

Deleting a Folder

Delete a folder from its options menu the same way. Deleting a folder removes the folder itself, not the content inside it — the items stay in your library and remain accessible from Home, search, and All Content. Deleted folders appear in their own Deleted Folders section on the Deleted tab.

See Folders and Organization for how folders work.

Deleting Inside a Project

Projects have their own Deleted section. Delete an item from a project and it leaves the project list, stays openable from the project's Deleted section and from Library → Deleted, and comes back with Restore or the Undo toast.

Restoring an item that was inside a deleted folder takes it out of that folder, so it reappears in the project rather than vanishing into something that is also deleted.

Deleting never changes an item's last-updated time, so a restored item sorts back where it belongs instead of jumping to the top of your list.

Tidying Up in Bulk from Chat

For anything larger than a few rows, ask chat instead of clicking:

  • "Delete everything in this project older than June."
  • "Restore what I deleted this week."

It handles pages, files, PDFs, videos, flashcards, podcasts, meeting notes, research sessions, and folders in one go, and reports what it changed. Deleting this way is the same reversible delete — nothing is permanently removed. See Managing Your Library from Chat.

The Deleted Tab

To see everything you've deleted, open All Content from the sidebar and switch the tab at the top to Deleted. This is your trash: deleted folders show at the top, deleted items below, and the content-type filter works here too if you're hunting for one specific thing.

Deleted items stay on this tab until you restore them — there's no auto-emptying, so there's no rush to recover something.

Archiving vs Deleting

Archiving is the other way to put something away, and it is always reversible.

  • Projects are archived rather than deleted. Open the ⋮ menu in the project header and choose Archive project. It leaves your gallery and sidebar, its content and chats stay together, and opening it again offers Restore project. See Projects.
  • Pages, files, and folders can be archived or restored by asking chat to do it — "archive last quarter's drafts", "restore the compliance folder". Nothing is destroyed.

Use Delete when you want something out of your library and in the trash; use Archive when you want it out of the way but intact.

Restoring

On the Deleted tab, open an item's ⋮ menu (or right-click it) and choose Restore. The item returns to your library exactly as it was. Restoring a folder brings the folder back with its contents still linked.

If you delete something you had shared, it drops out of shared listings. To be certain nobody can reach an item through a link you sent out, turn its sharing off from the Share menu before (or after restoring) deleting it — see Sharing and Collaboration.

Deleting Your Account

If you want all of your data permanently erased, you can delete your entire account from Settings → My Account. You are signed out and the deletion is confirmed right away, and removal finishes in the background. It cannot be undone. See Account, Login, and Password Recovery and Settings.

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