Deleting from the binder is no longer permanent. Delete a document and a message appears at the bottom of the screen with an Undo button — one click and everything is exactly as it was. Miss it, and the document is not gone either: a new Trash section at the foot of the binder holds everything you have deleted for 30 days, and one button puts it back. Delete a folder and its whole contents come back with it, in the right places.
Deleting also stops and asks first now, and tells you how much is going. Delete a folder or a chapter and the prompt names it and counts what is inside, so a whole act cannot quietly disappear on one mis-tap. That matters most on a phone, where Delete sits directly beneath Share and Export in the same menu and your thumb only has to miss by a single line.
If you are clearing out a lot at once, the prompt gets tiresome quickly, so you can switch it off — look for "Confirm before deleting" on your profile page, or in the ··· menu if you would rather not leave what you are writing. The setting belongs to your account rather than to one device, so turning it off on your laptop turns it off on your phone too. The Trash is still there either way.
How to use it
Right-click any document in the binder, or tap the ⋮ button that appears at the end of its row, and choose Delete. Instead of the document vanishing, a small window opens in the middle of the screen naming what you are about to remove.
If what you picked is a folder or a chapter, the window also tells you how many items are inside it. Everything nested underneath goes too, which is easy to forget when the folder is collapsed and you cannot see what it is holding.
Cancel is highlighted and ready when the window opens, so pressing Enter straight away is safe — and so is a second stray tap, because the buttons are nowhere near the menu you just tapped. Escape closes the window and keeps your document.
After you confirm, a short message slides in at the bottom of the screen: "Deleted", the document name, and an Undo button. Click Undo and everything comes back where it was. The message waits about eight seconds, and it stops counting down while your pointer is over it, so it will not slip away as you reach for it.
If the message has already gone, look at the foot of the binder for a 🗑 Trash row with a number beside it. Click it to expand. Each entry is something you deleted, with how long ago and — for a folder — how many documents are riding along inside it.
Click the ⤴ button on any entry to restore it. A folder comes back with its whole contents, in the same order and under the same parent. If the folder it used to live in has since gone, it lands at the top of the binder instead so you can always find it.
Anything you leave in the Trash is cleared out for good after 30 days. Until then it stays out of your way: trashed documents do not appear in search, are left out when you compile or export, and stop counting toward your word totals — so your numbers move the moment you delete, and move back when you restore.