Return to original (?) Zotero "view," without little tiny left "carat" thing "opened" for each item?

seema.patel
Hi. Please excuse my lack of terminology! I have about 300 sources (mostly law review and other articles) in a specific library, that I use for a specific paper. When I search my library for a term [say, "data broker"], it pulls up the 50 relevant articles. But instead of being able to see those 50 articles in a "clean" list, every entry is "opened" to show me all the individual tagged-entries I have in each one. I don't remember that last year (!), and wondered if there is a view setting I can turn off, so that I can return to the old view! I love my tagged/highlighted sections in each article but I don't want or need to see them when I search in this more general way, within my library. Here's what I prefer (all 'closed') vs. what I see (all open)!

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  • agam2222
    @seema.patel
    Hello. You can use the minus (-) or plus (+) keys on your keyboard to shrink or expand the tree of items/attachments, and the same works for viewing collections/subcollections in the collection pane.
    Hope this helps.
    Best regards.
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    @seema.patel: If you only want to match top-level items, use "Title, Creator, Year" mode in the search bar.

    If you want to match specific annotations as well, but don't want to see the context rows, make sure View → "Hide Non-Matching Annotations" is checked. (If you don't see that, you're on an outdated version of Zotero.)
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