All Notebooks Expanded Upon Inkdrop Starting in macOS

Issues
1

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

2

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.

3

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
4

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!

5

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

Have a nice day.