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# Lost & Found settings
> The categories the desk files things under, and how long each is held before it may be disposed of.
What kind of thing was lost or found, and how long the desk holds it before disposal is on the
table.
## Categories
Your own list — a phone, a wallet, keys, a laptop, documents, or whatever else actually comes through
your desk. A taxonomy imposed from outside is one people work around by filing everything under
*Other*, so the list is yours to shape, and retiring a category leaves items already filed under it,
and any report built on it, untouched.
## Held for
Each category carries its own retention period — the length of time a found item sits in store
before it may be disposed of. A set of keys is worth holding for a year; a half-eaten sandwich is not
worth holding past the afternoon, and that difference is exactly why the period lives on the category
rather than as one organisation-wide number.
Nothing is deleted when a hold runs out. The period only fills in a found item's hold-until date —
disposal is refused while that hold is still running, or while somebody has been told the item is
theirs — so what this screen sets is when disposal becomes **possible**, never automatic.
A category held for a week or less is flagged on this screen if it is still in active use: short is
right for something nobody comes back for, and usually wrong for anything with a name on it.
The register these categories and hold periods apply to.