In real life, we all squirrel away stuff that we don't use regularly in closets and throw stuff that we don't need away in the trash (except children and college students, who just seem to keep everything on the floor).

In our Internet lives, we need to do the same thing, store some information and throw other information away. OnePlace supports these needs through Archive and Trash (for you children and college students, we're still working on a Floor).

The OnePlace archive is accessed via the 'safe' icon in the OnePlace toolbar and can be thought of as your OnePlace closet. You can put items in the archive that you only need occasionally and/or information that you may want to review again at a later date. Stuff that you put in the archive stays there forever unless you take it out again or move it into the trash.

One great use of archives is to store entire workplaces. For instance, if you've got a workplace that is seasonal in nature, you can tuck it away in the archive and bring it back out again when you need it. In this way, you're not cluttering up your OnePlace screens with information you don't currently need. I also store a lot of inbasket notes in my archive for later review.

Trash is accessed via the trash can icon in the OnePlace toolbar. Trash is pretty easy to understand with the exception that OnePlace only empties items out of the trash when they are 30 days old. In other words, if you trash something, it gets moved to the trash bin for 30 days before it's permanently deleted.

We're often asked why we don't ask for confirmation when you trash something in OnePlace. The reason is that you can retrieve it from the trash if you've accidentally trashed it. If you really, really, want something erased from the system immediately, you must first trash it and then find it in the trash and delete it there.

Should you need help finding something that you've trashed or archived, both the archive and the trash can be searched via the search function in the OnePlace toolbar.

More information regarding search, archive, and trash can be found here: OnePlace help

Happy Holidays!