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Activity Log

The Activity Log gives you a searchable, time-ordered record of everything that has happened in NoteCove on this device: notes created, edited, or opened; tasks completed or moved; folders restructured; and more. It is local-only — each device keeps its own log, and it is never synced.

Opening the Activity Log

Menu: Tools > Advanced > Activity Log…

The Activity Log modal shows a table of recent events with the most recent at the top.

What Is Logged

Every mutation in NoteCove emits an event that the Activity Log captures:

  • Notes: note.created, note.modified, note.deleted, note.moved, note.opened
  • Tasks: task.created, task.modified, task.deleted, task.moved, task.opened
  • Folders: folder.created, folder.modified, folder.deleted
  • Projects: project.created, project.modified, project.deleted

Events are recorded whether they originated locally (you made the change) or arrived via sync from another device.

Filtering

Type a pattern in the filter box and press Search (or Enter) to narrow results:

  • note.* — all note events
  • task.created — exact match
  • *.deleted — deletions across all item types
  • note.opened — every time you opened a note

Stats

The top of the modal shows a summary: total event count, oldest event date, and newest event date.

CLI Access

The Activity Log is also accessible via the CLI:

# Search events
notecove activity search --type "note.*" --since 7d

# Live stream (tails the event stream as events happen)
notecove activity tail --type "task.*"

# Summary statistics
notecove activity stats

# Purge events older than 30 days
notecove activity purge --before 30d

Duration formats for --since, --until, --before: Nd (days), Nh (hours), Nm (minutes), Ns (seconds), or raw milliseconds.

Retention

By default, the Activity Log keeps events for 90 days. You can change this in Settings > Advanced > Activity Log Retention:

  • A specific number of days
  • Off — keep events forever, never purge

Old events are purged automatically at startup and every 24 hours.

Platform Support

Feature Desktop iOS
Activity Log modal Yes No
CLI access Yes No
Retention setting Yes No