# Private folders

URL: /code/file-conventions/private-folders · Id: `page:code/file-conventions/private-folders`

> A folder whose name starts with an underscore is unmanaged, never checked and never published.

A folder whose name starts with `_` is unmanaged. The checks skip it and nothing in it is published or stored as a record.

```text
_notes/
└── pricing-ideas.md
```

## Reference
Any files. Inside `sites/`, `_folder/` also keeps a folder out of the URL tree.

## Examples
### Minimal
```text
_scratch/
```

### Leaseline
```text
_research/interviews.md
sites/www/_drafts/new-hero.mdx
```

## What it builds
Nothing.

## Good to know
- [Secrets](/business/nouns/secret) are still refused here; the secret scan reads every file.