All Notebooks Expanded Upon Inkdrop Starting in macOS

Hi all,

Apologies if this question has been asked before or if there’s a solution in the documentation.

Whenever I open the Inkdrop application on macOS, all of the notebooks and their subnotebooks in the sidebar start expanded. I have many notebooks and sub-notebooks, so this often looks very cluttered. Whenever I open Inkdrop on Ubuntu, I only observe the top-level notebooks, and they aren’t expanded.

Is there a setting I can toggle so that when I use Inkdrop, only the top-level notebooks are shown but not their sub-notebooks?

Thanks!
Anthony

Hi Anthony,

Thanks for the question.
That’s weird. Collapsed notebooks should be saved in config.cson like so:

"*":
  core:
    mainWindow:
      sideBar:
        collapsedBooks: [
          "book:6e39afbd6b72"
          "book:32b385767dc2"
        ]

Can you please check your config.cson after quitting the app?
It can be located in the user data directory.

Thanks for looking into this Takuya.

Surprisingly, my sideBar entry is an empty object. Here’s what my config.cson looks like:

"*":
  core:
    db:
      machineId: "LBtCs0_FN"
    disabledPackages: [
      "img-small"
    ]
    lastNavigationState:
      editingNoteId: "note:03oa5_ftr"
      queryContext:
        bookId: "book:dhzND3UQQ"
        filterKeyword: ""
        includeChildren: true
        mode: "book"
      sidebar:
        workspace:
          bookId: "book:dhzND3UQQ"
          visible: true
    mainWindow:
      acrylicEnabled: true
      fullscreen: true
      maximized: false
      position:
        x: 240
        y: 117
      sideBar: {}
      size:
        h: 848
        w: 1200
    themes: [
      "dracula-preview"
      "default-dark-ui"
      "dracula-syntax"
    ]
    toggleDarkThemeAutomatically: false
  editor:
    lineNumbers: true
    viewMode: "sideBySide"
  preview:
    fontSize: 18

Ack, this is a user error! Sorry about this.
I’ve manually just collapsed all of my notebooks. I didn’t realize I had to do that; I thought it just happened by default. Now the sideBar object config reflects my collapsed notebooks and I see an array of collapsed notebooks:

      sideBar:
        collapsedBooks: [
          "book:6iB4QXPxv"
          "book:fkpt5Irq5"
          "book:2ALjiKaS1"
          "book:hjbgu8Vij"
          "book:DAiey2uO6"
          "book:dhzND3UQQ"
          "book:E_Ha9QH1p"
          "book:NyIslL-Nu"
          "book:0Q5gVyhh_"
          "book:acfdS9wIc"
          "book:HAh65qa8C"
          "book:fKoA5om2K"
          "book:dnlK_bY3L"
          "book:FX5YryZ5D"
          "book:nCcWK-e9M"
        ]

I’m happy to have learned about config.cson though, thank you Takuya!

Great to know that you’ve got it!
Yes, Inkdrop remembers which notebooks are expanded/collapsed.

Have a nice day.