Can I collapse bullet points and headings?

Yes. Harbor calls them collapsible outlines, and if you’ve folded an outline in Evernote, Notion, Workflowy or Roam, this is the same idea: hide a section you’re not working on so the rest of a long note fits on one screen.

How to fold something

Move your pointer over a bullet or a heading. If it has anything underneath it, a small arrow appears just to its left. Click the arrow.

Everything nested under that row disappears, and the arrow turns to point sideways:

Click the arrow again to bring it back.

Bullets, numbered lists and checklists all fold the same way.

Folding a heading hides its whole section

A heading doesn’t contain anything the way a bullet does — the paragraphs, lists and tables under it are just what comes next. Fold it anyway and Harbor hides all of that, right up to the next heading of the same level or higher.

That’s the one to reach for on a long note. Fold every section but the one you’re writing in, and a note you’d normally scroll through becomes a table of contents you can open a piece at a time.

Finding a folded section again

A collapsed row keeps its arrow on screen. An expanded row only shows its arrow when you’re pointing at it, so an outline at rest stays clean — but a folded one keeps a sideways arrow beside it whether you’re hovering or not. That’s the difference between a bullet that’s hiding something and a bullet that never had anything under it.

The keyboard shortcuts

Put your cursor anywhere in a row and:

• ⌘⇧[ collapses it — Ctrl+Shift+[ on Windows.
• ⌘⇧] expands it — Ctrl+Shift+].

They act on the row the cursor is in, so from a nested bullet you fold that bullet, not the one above it.

Folds follow you between devices

Fold a section on your Mac and it’s folded when you open the note on your iPhone. A fold isn’t a per-device display setting you have to keep in step — it’s part of the note, saved and synced the same way your words are. Undo works on it too.

Search still finds what’s folded

Folding hides text from your eyes, not from Harbor. Everything inside a collapsed section stays searchable, so a search across your notes turns up a note whose match is tucked inside a fold.

To see the match itself, open the note and use find-in-note — ⌘F, or Ctrl+F on Windows. When it jumps to a hit inside a folded section, Harbor opens the fold for you rather than scrolling to something you can’t see.

What other people get

• A share link keeps your folds. Publish a note as a public link and the person you sent it to sees the same folded sections you did — and can click them open to read the rest. It’s a live page, so it behaves like one.
• A downloaded file comes out fully expanded. A PDF, Markdown, HTML or Evernote export has no arrow to click, so a folded section in a file would just be missing content. Harbor writes the whole note instead.

Moving a folded section

Drag a collapsed row and everything it’s hiding goes with it. That’s the quick way to reorder a long note: fold your sections down to their headings, drag them into the order you want, then open them back up.

What doesn’t fold

So you’re not hunting for an arrow that isn’t there:

• Rows with nothing under them. A bullet with no sub-bullets and a heading with no section aren’t foldable — there’s nothing to hide.
• Headings below Heading 3. Harbor’s editor offers three heading levels and all three fold. A deeper heading — the kind that can arrive in an imported or pasted note — doesn’t.
• There’s no “collapse everything” yet. Folding is one row at a time for now.

Where it works

Collapsible outlines are in web, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Windows, and Android — every Harbor app with an editor.

One difference worth knowing on a phone or tablet: there’s no pointer to hover, so the arrow sits at the right-hand edge of the row instead of the left, and every foldable row shows one all the time. Tap it to fold and tap it again to open.