How can I use the note collapse feature again?

[l2389]

Upgrading from v0.24 to V0.30.0, I can no longer find the collapse settings for notes. How can I use the note collapse feature again?

[canakyuz]

The feature is still there, but in v0.30 it sits behind a setting that did not exist in v0.24.

What changed

In v0.24 the feed passed compact unconditionally, so collapsing was always on:

https://github.com/usememos/memos/blob/v0.24.4/web/src/pages/Home.tsx#L52

In v0.30 the whole memo body is wrapped in ClampedSection with enabled={Boolean(compact)}:

https://github.com/usememos/memos/blob/v0.30.0/web/src/components/MemoView/components/MemoBody.tsx#L40

and compact is now derived from the view state instead of being hardcoded:

https://github.com/usememos/memos/blob/v0.30.0/web/src/components/PagedMemoList/PagedMemoList.tsx#L144

The default view state is { orderByTimeAsc: false, compactMode: false, linkPreview: true, maxColumns: 1 }:

https://github.com/usememos/memos/blob/v0.30.0/web/src/contexts/ViewContext.tsx#L35

So on a fresh v0.30 install nothing is clamped, at any height. That is why the feature looks gone.

How to get it back

Open the memo display settings menu (the sliders icon above the feed) and turn on Compact mode:

https://github.com/usememos/memos/blob/v0.30.0/web/src/components/MemoDisplaySettingMenu.tsx#L109-L111

Setting more than one column also forces it on, since grid tiles are always compact.

Two follow-up notes

The threshold also changed. v0.24 collapsed anything taller than 256px:

https://github.com/usememos/memos/blob/v0.24.4/web/src/components/MemoContent/index.tsx#L12-L13

v0.30 only collapses above 420px and shows a 360px preview:

https://github.com/usememos/memos/blob/v0.30.0/web/src/components/ClampedSection.tsx#L6-L10

So a memo between 257px and 420px stays open even with compact mode enabled.

The detail page passes compact={false} explicitly, so it is never clamped, and there is no setting to lower the threshold:

https://github.com/usememos/memos/blob/v0.30.0/web/src/pages/MemoDetail.tsx#L124

[l2389]

Thank you.

[canakyuz]

Glad it helped! If this solved it for you, marking the comment as the answer would help others upgrading from v0.24 find it faster.