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# What goes into the Archive?
The Archive contains inactive notes or folders from the other categories.

For example:
- Finished, or canceled a project?
- An area in your life is not relevant anymore, because you moved, changed jobs, stopped your hobby or sold your business?
- A topic you were interested in the past is not important to you anymore?

If you are migrating notes from a previous system or app, you can park them all here. Don't try to sort them into the new folders (this will take too much time and effort), instead use the search (CMD+J) to find old notes and process them in this moment.

Archived notes can also become useful if you are working on a similar project and want to use the old note as a template.

Last step in your onboarding: [[How does NotePlan work?]]
