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# Managing and deleting your notifications

Over the weeks, your list fills up. Klarity gives you four gestures to keep it readable: mark as read, archive, handle several notifications at once, and permanently delete what you no longer need.

# Understanding read, archived and deleted

It's helpful to tell the three states apart, because they don't have the same effect:

- **Read** — you've taken note of the notification. It leaves the **Unread** tab and the badge decrements, but it stays in **All**. A notification is marked read automatically as soon as you open its detail.
- **Archived** — you tuck it away out of the main view. It moves to the **Archived** tab; you can find it there at any time.
- **Deleted** — it's removed permanently. There's no trash bin: a deletion can't be undone.

| Good to know: archiving is the right reflex to "tidy up without losing." Reserve deletion for notifications you're sure you'll never need again.

| Klarity also tidies up on its own: an **unread** notification is kept for **90 days**, an **archived** one for **30 days**, then it's removed automatically. So handle the important alerts without waiting too long.

# Acting on a notification

Hover over a notification in the list: quick actions appear on the right.

1. **Mark as read** / **Mark as unread** — toggles the read state. (Keyboard shortcut: `R` on the selected notification.)
2. **Archive** — files the notification into the **Archived** tab. (Keyboard shortcut: `E`.) The action doesn't appear if the notification is already archived.
3. **More actions** — opens a menu containing **Delete**.

You'll find these same actions in the detail panel, top right when you open a notification.

# Handling several notifications at once

Tick the checkbox of several notifications: a bulk-actions bar shows at the top of the list and indicates the number of selected notifications. Depending on your selection, you can:

- **Mark read** — offered if at least one selected notification is unread;
- **Archive** — offered if at least one selected notification isn't archived yet;
- **Delete** — always available;
- **Cancel selection** — to untick everything.

To go even faster, the bottom of the filters column offers two global actions: **Mark all as read** and **Archive all read**. If a category is filtered, these actions apply only to that category.

# Deleting permanently

1. Start the deletion from a notification's **More actions** menu, from the detail panel, or via the **Delete** button of the multi-selection bar.
2. A confirmation window opens. Confirm with **Delete**.

||| Deletion is permanent — there's no trash bin. To simply declutter the view without losing history, prefer **Archive**.

| 💡 **Tip:** handle the related action first (read the summary, check the consent) then archive the notification — that way you only keep what's still pending in view.

# Related articles
- Understanding notifications