> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.glassine.ink/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# The Shelf

> For documents that are not current but are not finished with either. Out of the way, not gone.

A library fills up. The Shelf is where things go when they should stop taking up room in the sidebar without being archived, deleted, or moved somewhere you will forget.

## Shelving

Right-click a document (or a folder) and choose **Shelve**, or press ⌘⇧⌫ with the document open, or pick Shelve in the ⌘K command bar. It leaves Recents, Starred, the folder tree and All Documents, and appears in a **Shelf** section at the bottom of the sidebar — collapsed, with a count. Search still finds it, and you can open and edit it from the Shelf like anything else.

**Unshelve**, from the same places, puts it back exactly where it was.

Both are undoable with ⌘Z.

## On disk

A shelved document is moved into a `Shelf` folder at the top of the library that mirrors the structure underneath it: `Essays/Draft.md` becomes `Shelf/Essays/Draft.md`. Nothing about the file changes but where it sits, so it syncs like everything else and other apps see a plain folder. Unshelving moves it home and removes any folders left empty on the way.

If you prefer, make the folder yourself in Finder and drag things in; Glassine treats anything under `Shelf` as shelved.