The scariest button I designed was the one that makes things disappear.
When you finish a summary in Gisto, the article archives itself. You don't file it. You don't decide where it goes. It just leaves. Early on, that made me nervous — aren't people going to feel like they lost something?
Then I paid attention to how the pile actually made people feel. Every unread item was a tiny open decision: do I read this, keep this, delete this? Four hundred items meant four hundred open decisions, sitting there, all day, quietly taxing you. The list wasn't storage. It was a standing bill of unfinished thinking.
Auto-archive pays that bill for you. Finishing something should lighten the load, not add "now decide what to do with it" on top. The relief isn't in keeping everything within reach. It's in trusting that what's done is done, and letting it go.
We save the important ones — that's what the star is for. But the default is: read it, and let it flow out. Not because your attention doesn't matter, but because it matters too much to spend on filing.
The best thing an app can do is make a decision so you don't have to.