# Notebook list - Collapse notebook tree

**URL:** <https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/notebook-list-collapse-notebook-tree/1239>\
**Category:** Features\
**Created:** [25 December 2018 20:22 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/notebook-list-collapse-notebook-tree/1239 "2018-12-25T20:22:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![heluca](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/heluca/32/86_2.png) [@heluca](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/heluca)\
**Post date:** [25 December 2018 20:22 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/notebook-list-collapse-notebook-tree/1239/1 "2018-12-25T20:22:48Z")

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After using Joplin for quite some time, I now have many sub-notebooks and I’d like an option to start Joplin with the notebook tree in the sidebar collapsed. It would also be really handy to have a menu item to collapse all / expand all by right clicking “Notebooks” in the sidebar.

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**Author:** ![MichaelTunnell](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/michaeltunnell/32/424_2.png) [@MichaelTunnell](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/MichaelTunnell)\
**Post date:** [25 December 2018 20:50 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/notebook-list-collapse-notebook-tree/1239/2 "2018-12-25T20:50:05Z")

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If you manually collapse a higher level notebook then it will remember that for the next time you load so you dont have to keep doing it over and over. A un/collapse all could be nice in some usecases but for me the fact that it remembers makes it less of an issue.

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**Author:** ![joballa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joballa](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/joballa)\
**Post date:** [1 February 2021 15:25 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/notebook-list-collapse-notebook-tree/1239/3 "2021-02-01T15:25:02Z")

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I strongly support this feature request. I don't collapse manually the notebooks' hierarchy after I have found the note I was looking for, instead I use the information of the note for some other application and don't come back to Joplin until I need to search some other note quite probably unrelated to the previous search.

But then the hierarchy is expanded with many branches down a few levels. I need to search and collapse one by one the higher nodes to have a clearer view of which is the top level node where I have to start my search.

I collapse all feature would save a lot of time with this top level node search.

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**Author:** ![john](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/john/32/6373_2.png) [@john](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/john)\
**Post date:** [1 February 2021 22:33 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/notebook-list-collapse-notebook-tree/1239/4 "2021-02-01T22:33:05Z")

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I have the same idea.

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**Author:** ![navarrothiago](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/navarrothiago/32/5165_2.png) [@navarrothiago](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/navarrothiago)\
**Post date:** [12 February 2021 10:19 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/notebook-list-collapse-notebook-tree/1239/5 "2021-02-12T10:19:23Z")

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It would be interesting 😉

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**Author:** ![dcpiccolo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/dcpiccolo/32/9348_2.png) [@dcpiccolo](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/dcpiccolo)\
**Post date:** [1 July 2021 06:03 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/notebook-list-collapse-notebook-tree/1239/6 "2021-07-01T06:03:12Z")

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Yes to this 🙏

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**Author:** ![empleat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@empleat](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/empleat)\
**Post date:** [18 January 2022 21:35 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/notebook-list-collapse-notebook-tree/1239/7 "2022-01-18T21:35:22Z")

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How come no one thought about to include simple collapse, there are missing so many basic controls, which were used in programs since 1999 - I don't understand... It is very unproductive to use, so far I didn't find better alternative ☹

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**Author:** ![sparshy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/sparshy/32/12755_2.png) [@sparshy](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/sparshy)\
**Post date:** [21 February 2022 20:01 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/notebook-list-collapse-notebook-tree/1239/8 "2022-02-21T20:01:18Z")

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Yes this will be a nice feature.

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**Author:** ![Daeraxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/daeraxa/32/6172_2.png) [@Daeraxa](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/Daeraxa)\
**Post date:** [21 February 2022 20:22 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/notebook-list-collapse-notebook-tree/1239/9 "2022-02-21T20:22:39Z")

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