See older version of a note?

[DameGAD]

Is there a way to see recent edits of a note or older versions of a note?

I was writing in a note using the desktop app, and opened it on the webversion on my smartphone, but it was an older version... and now I also have the older version in the desktop app. I lost dozen of lines.

[edit] solved by the bot

[dosubot[bot]]

Hi @DameGAD! I'm Dosu and I'm helping the TriliumNext team.

Yes, Trilium has a built-in note revision history feature that automatically saves snapshots of your notes at regular intervals (by default every 10 minutes) [1]. You can access it by right-clicking a note or looking for the "Revisions" option in the note's context menu/toolbar.

In the revisions dialog you can [2]:

• Browse past versions grouped by time period (today, yesterday, this week, etc.)
• Preview the content of any revision
• Use "Highlight changes" to see a diff between a revision and the current content
• Restore a revision to replace the current note content
• Download or delete individual revisions

So if your lost content was saved within the last automatic snapshot interval, you should be able to find it there and restore it.

If the revision history doesn't contain your lost content (e.g., if the sync overwrote it before a snapshot was taken), Trilium also creates automatic full database backups (daily, weekly, monthly) stored in your data directory under backup/ [3]. You could open a backup database to recover the note content from before the sync issue occurred.

To avoid this in the future, you may want to ensure sync completes fully before editing on another device — the older version on your phone likely hadn't synced the latest changes yet, and when it did sync, it may have treated its stale version as newer.

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