Hi Lawrence,
You’re correct that Dynalist doesn’t have this feature right now.
This is the feature request post for it: Feature request - Expand/collapse level by level
Unfortunately we haven’t made progress on this, mainly because we’re not sure about how to implement it. Two ways I can think of:
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Have an option for “Expand one more level” and another for “Expand one fewer level”. So that when you want to expand level 4, you collapse all, and use the “Expand one more level” 3 times.
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Have a bunch of empty, customizable shortcuts for “expand level 1”, “expand level 2”, “expand level 3”, etc etc.
The downsides of implementation 1 is that the (already pretty long) item menu even longer, plus it takes quite a few clicks to get to a certain level (especially if the level is deep). But it is more flexible.
The downside of implementation 2 is that it’s more hidden, and is not as flexible. We may provide shortcuts to expand level 1-9, which should cover most cases, but you might need to see level 10 or 11 expanded someday, who knows. Being hidden is not too bad though, considering it’s more of a power user feature. At least it doesn’t bloat the UI for non power users.
Above is why we haven’t implemented it yet, considering the pros don’t outweigh the cons. Please let me know if you can think of a better way to do it!