A deprecated note

A deprecated note

This is a sample page. It carries the DEPRECATED flag so the flag can be seen doing its work: the red stamp across the article, and the badge beside the title wherever the note is listed — in backlinks, in search results, in a tag's notes. Nothing here is actually out of date.

A flag is a whole-note marker the author assigns and the sidecar keeps; see Properties for how to set one, from the CLI (track meta --flag DEPRECATED) or from the Meta dialog's checkboxes in the Web workspace.

DEPRECATED is the one flag with behavior past the stamp: the search index subtracts a constant from a deprecated note's rank, so it sits below the notes that are not. An old page stops crowding out the page that replaced it, without anyone having to delete it.