There are a few ways to expand/collapse your bulleted content. Please note, there have been changes in the latest design as of 2018, so some older methods are not available.
Current Options
1. Expand/Collapse all - From the Home screen's main menu, ‘Expand All’ and ‘Collapse All’ are options you can select.
2. Expand/Collape all under one parent item - ‘Expand All’ and ‘Collapse All’ options to the menu that appears when you hover over a bullet, or from the menu at the top right when zoomed to any bullet.
3. And lastly, the control+spacebar keys opens and collapses lists when your cursor is set on any bullet's title (either zoomed to the bullet or from a list of bullets)
These features are summarized in the following article:
Comments
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too complex
I like the first option. I wish it was in the app.
If it's impossible to add it in Chrome app, can you make it available as a menu item?
As mentioned elsewhere, 4 is the one I use most, but what would be really nice is the ability of collapsing a node while the cursor is on one of its childeren (maybe ctrl+shift+spacebar?)
Is there any way to collapse/expand all lists in the iPad app? If not, would be great to see this! Thanks.
#2 was disabled a few days ago while the Workflowy team works on optimizing the app:
--see https://blog.workflowy.com/2017/09/27/why-we-disabled-expand-all-by-double-clicking-on-the-page-title-and-logo/--
#4: Mac users might think this would be Cmd-Space on that platform...nope, it's still Ctrl-Space! Also, I was confused and thought this meant to perform the shortcut on a zoomed-in title. Nope, the keyboard focus needs to be on just a regular item in a list. This is the same behavior as Cmd/Ctrl + Up/Down arrow keys, just a different key combo.
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Also, not sure if this was a feature when this article was originally posted, but now you can double-click on the expand/collapse symbol for any item to expand all the items under that parent.
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Please see this update...
https://blog.workflowy.com/2017/11/15/the-return-of-expand-and-collapse-all/
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