Toggles and dropdowns in notes

Add a toggle

1. Put the cursor on the line that should become the toggle's title. An empty line works too.
2. Type /toggle and pick Toggle. Or tap + and choose Toggle, under Lists. Or type > and two spaces at the start of the line.
3. Type the title, then press Enter to write the first line inside.

Each new line you start inside stays inside the toggle. Press Enter on an empty last line to step back out of it.

Open and close a toggle

Tap the arrow beside the title: Show what's inside or Hide what's inside. With a keyboard, press Ctrl + Enter in the title (⌘ + Enter on a Mac).

Whether a toggle is open is kept on each device, not in the note. Opening one doesn't change the note, and it doesn't open on your other devices or for the people you share it with. A toggle you make starts open on that device. If Find, or the cursor, needs to reach a line inside a closed toggle, the toggle opens by itself.

Move lines in or out, and delete a toggle

• To move a line into the toggle just above it, press Tab. Shift + Tab moves it back out. On Android, the ⋮⋮ button (Block actions) also has Move into toggle and Move out of toggle.
• Backspace at the start of the title turns the toggle back into an ordinary line. What was inside stays, just under it.
• To delete a toggle that has lines inside, use Block actions, then Delete block. On Android, Memlow asks whether to keep what's inside (Delete, keep what's inside) or delete it too (Delete with what's inside).

Toggles suit notes that grow long. Fold each day away in a week planner, or put a question in the title and its answer inside for revision. For a heading that folds the section under it, see Collapse section in Write and format notes.

Add a dropdown

1. Put the cursor on an empty line.
2. Type /dropdown and pick Dropdown. Or tap + and choose Dropdown, under Elements.
3. Memlow adds a dropdown with three options, Not started, In progress and Done, and opens its options so you can change them.

A dropdown sits on its own line. You can give it a label in front, with Add a label, such as "Status" or "Paid?".

Pick an option

Tap the pill. It says Choose until something is picked. The list shows every option, with the chosen one ticked:

• Tap an option to choose it.
• Clear the choice empties the pill again.
• Edit options lets you change the list.

In a note someone shared with you, everyone picks from the same options, and everyone sees what was chosen.

Edit the options

Choose Edit options from the dropdown's list.

• Change an option's words by typing over them.
• Tap its colour to pick one of nine.
• Drag the grip beside it to put it in another place. With a keyboard, Alt + ↑ and Alt + ↓ move it.
• Tap × (Remove) to take it out.
• Add an option adds another at the end.

Close the list when you're done. On Android, tap Done.

In PDFs, exports and shared notes

• A PDF of the note prints every toggle open, so nothing inside is left out, and a dropdown as the pill you see. See Print a note or save it as a PDF.
• Exported as Markdown, a toggle becomes a <details> block, and a dropdown its label and chosen option. When you bring that file into the web app, the toggles come back. See Export notes.
• In a shared note, each person can open and close toggles for themselves, and everyone picks from the same dropdown options.

Questions and answers