Hello! I use WorkFlowy across a phone and two computers. Whenever I swap devices, I find myself taking a minute to collapse / expand bullets depending on where I left off on the previous device, what’s my current project, etc. Not a big deal, but it would be lovely if that synced across devices. (edit: also if I swap from the app to the browser version, like when I want multiple tabs to quickly bounce between project areas)
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I do the same thing. In my mind, the expanded/collapsed state of a node is as much part of the node as the title and notes. Although I know that some people having different views of the same data which vary only in expanded/collapsed state. Not sure how to please both groups.
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I completely agree, and in fact whenever I see a bullet item that’s in a different expanded state than where I left it (on a different device), my initial reaction is “the data didn’t sync”. I then remember that this doesn’t sync and I have to go spend a bunch of time opening and closing items to match what’s on my other device.
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I can totally see both perspectives. Sometimes I am working on my desktop and then want to continue on mobile, and indeed it’s awkward to have to manually sync the expanded/collapsed state of the tree. Other times, I have e.g. two windows open in parallel in the browser (or on different devices) because I have two in-progress projects and wouldn’t want to lose the context on one instance of Workflowy as I navigate in another.
This means that even if there was a toggle in the settings to sync the collapse/expanded status of nodes, I wouldn’t want to have it as an always-on setting, so I’d probably keep it off. But maybe people who never need to manage two tree states simultaneously, that could be a workable solution: a toggle in the settings (off by default to not disrupt those relying on the current behavior) to sync the expand/collapse status of notes.
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I totally love how all our brains use WorkFlowy differently! I like your idea of a toggle option to please all camps.
As a bit of an aside, if I’m understanding you correctly, I often do the same thing – keep multiple tabs open where I’m zoomed into different projects. However, because those project sub-bullets are nested under completely separate parent bullets for me, I don’t find the expanded/collapsed states of sub-bullets disrupting my flow across projects. Put another way, I think my top project bullets tend to be collapsed for a clean high-level view, but when I click into them I have varying amounts of stuff expanded within. So, I’d always have that toggle idea of yours on.
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