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Your dashboard and recent secrets

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Where your account has the recent-secrets list, it appears in two places: on your dashboard, which also carries the form you create secrets with, and on a page of its own called Recent Secrets. Both are drawn from the same records, but they are not the same screen and they do not offer the same controls. Where that matters, this page says which is which.

It lists receipts, not secrets

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Every entry is a receipt — the record of a secret, not the secret itself. The list holds no content and cannot return any. Nothing in either list will show you what you sent.

That matters most in the moment you are likeliest to come looking. If you have lost the content — you did not save the password you pasted, you closed the tab too soon — the list will not give it back. The answer is usually a new secret, made from whatever the original source was.

There is one exception, and it lives on the receipt rather than in the list. If the secret was a generated password and its receipt has not been opened yet, opening the receipt can still show you that password — once, and only inside a short window that starts when you create the secret. The conditions are exact and worth reading before you rely on them: see Seeing a generated password: one look. Content you typed yourself is never shown back to you.

What appears in the list

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The secret In the list?
Secrets you created while signed in Listed
Secrets you created signed out Never listed — they are not attached to your account at all
Secrets created in the last 30 days Listed, if the entry still exists
Anything older than 30 days Not listed, and not reachable by scrolling

The thirty-day figure is a fixed ceiling on the query, not a promise that entries last that long — most stop appearing well before it, for the reason in When entries disappear. There is no archive behind the list, no pagination, and no search.

The Recent Secrets page groups entries under Not Received and Received. Read Received as finished, not as “someone got it”: an entry moves into that group once the service has recorded that its secret is finished — read, burned or expired, or gone with no recorded reason at all. The status on the entry says which.

The recording is what moves it. A secret whose lifetime has run out but whose receipt nobody has opened has not been recorded as expired yet, so it stays under Not Received and can still be shown as New or Previewed.

Statuses

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Status What it means
New Created. The share link has not been fetched.
Previewed The share link has been fetched at least once, but nothing has been read. A mail scanner or a chat preview opening the link is enough to reach this.
Revealed Someone completed a read. The secret is gone.
Burned Destroyed before it was read.
Expired The lifetime ran out with nobody reading it. This is recorded when the receipt is opened after the lifetime is up, not the instant it runs out.
Orphaned The secret is gone and none of the outcomes above was recorded for it. You will see this on the receipt itself; in the list these entries sit with the finished ones.

Treat the status as the last outcome the service recorded for that secret rather than as a live reading of it. A finished secret shows how it finished, but the two surfaces do not always word the same finished secret identically — the receipt is the more precise of the two.

What each entry shows

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What you see What it is
Status The last outcome recorded for that secret
When you created it Relative to now — “3 hours ago”
Lifetime How long the secret was set to last, fixed when you created it
Passphrase Whether one is required. Never the passphrase itself, which is not stored in a readable form
Memo A short note you added, if any
Sharing domain Shown when the secret was shared from a custom domain rather than the site you are on

The lifetime is not a countdown. It is the figure you chose at creation, recorded once and never revised, so a seven-day secret reads as seven days on its last day as well as its first. Nothing in the list tells you how much time a secret has left.

What you can do from an entry

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Action Available on
Copy the share link to your clipboard Entries that are still New or Previewed, and that have a share link to give
Open the share link in a new tab The same entries
Open the receipt for that secret Every entry, including finished ones
Burn the secret Entries that are still New or Previewed, from the Recent Secrets page. The dashboard list does not offer it — open the receipt instead
Add or edit a memo Every entry, from the dashboard list; the box there takes up to 100 characters and saves to the receipt. The Recent Secrets page shows the memo but will not let you change it

Once a secret has been revealed, burned or expired there is no link left to copy or open and nothing left to burn, so those actions are not offered on finished entries.

Opening the receipt is the route to everything else the secret can still do.

There is no way to delete an entry, hide one, or clear the signed-in list. Entries leave it on their own schedule and no sooner.

When entries disappear

Section titled “When entries disappear”

An entry lives exactly as long as its receipt does, and a receipt is given twice the lifetime of the secret it records. A secret set to last a day leaves an entry that is still there two days later; a secret set to last an hour leaves one for two hours.

This is why thirty days is a ceiling rather than an expectation. For most secrets the receipt runs out long before the thirty-day query window is anywhere near it, and the entry simply stops being returned. Nothing announces this and nothing is archived — the entry is there, and then it is not.

The gap between the two is deliberate: it is what lets you answer “was it read, or did it expire?” after the secret itself is gone. It is not storage. Once the receipt’s own time is up, the entry and its receipt page both stop working, and there is no way to extend either after the fact.

If you need a durable record that a share happened, keep it somewhere you control. Inside an organization, the audit trail keeps its own account of these events.

The list refreshes itself

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The dashboard list refreshes when you come back to the tab, and again as soon as you create a secret. The Recent Secrets page refreshes itself periodically while it is open and carries a refresh control you can press. Neither is a live feed — if a status looks stale, reload the page.

Signed out, the list is a different thing

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If you are not signed in, you still see recent links, but they are held in your browser rather than on the server. That list:

  • lives only in the current browser tab, and is gone when you close it;
  • holds at most 25 entries, dropping the oldest;
  • drops entries whose secret lifetime has run out;
  • can be dismissed outright from the list itself, which discards it immediately with no copy kept anywhere;
  • is wiped the moment you sign in or sign out.

Once that list is gone there is no copy of it anywhere, and none of it ever reaches an account. A secret created signed out is never added to an account’s list, not even if you sign in a minute later. If you want your secrets listed, sign in before you create them.

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