I’m not sure what you are saying… I have a Windows machine too so I tried this out there.
Start with all the children expanded. Do CTRL + SHIFT + . to collapse all children, and then CTRL + . to open the parent only. This will open the parent but leave the children collapsed.
You can probably use something like PhraseExpress to bind this to a single shortcut.
Although I still think dynalist should implement SHIFT + LEFT CLICK modifier to do this though.
CTRL + . is the equivalent of clicking a left click bulletpoint
CTRL+SHIFT+ .has no equivalent left click button + modifier (ctrl, shift, etc)
I do almost all my collapsing manually clicking on it though, I don’t think I’m going to adopt using shortcut keys for this unless I absolutely have too
EDIT
While CTRL+SHIFT + . works fine, it would be really nice if I had a script that didn’t collapse ALL my bulletpoints, but only the top level childs in that parent
Because if I have the following inforamtion:
✪ Courselist (parent)
✪✪ Course1 (10 pages worth of material)
✪✪ Course 2 (10 pages worth of material)
where each top level child bulletpoint (Course 1, Course 2) are extremely long to begin with many nested child structures underneath, I don’t want to collapse all of those. Rather, I just want to close out “course1” “course2” etc by shift+left click on “courselist”