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A quote block can be marked as collapsible. It then shows its first line with the rest folded away, and the reader expands it if they want it.
That solves the oldest problem in long-form messaging: how to include something at length without making everybody read it.
What you will be able to do
- check_circle Fold a long quote behind one line.
- check_circle Write the line that decides whether it is opened.
- check_circle Use it for more than quotations.
- check_circle Keep a long channel post scannable.
The collapsed block shows its opening line with an expand control underneath.
unfold_less Length without cost
Long material in a chat has always forced a bad choice: include it and make everyone scroll past, or leave it out and lose the evidence. People usually pick the first, which is why technical groups are full of messages where the reply is buried under forty lines of log.
A collapsible block removes the choice. The material is present, citable and complete; the screen shows one line of it. Readers who need the detail open it and readers who do not are unaffected, which is how a document behaves rather than how a chat message behaves.
The whole thing then rests on the first line, because that is all most people will ever see. A line saying what the block contains — the error, the clause, the section — gets opened by the right people. A block whose first line is an arbitrary fragment of the middle gets opened by nobody.
It is worth using beyond actual quotations. Anything long and optional fits: the full error output under a one-sentence summary, the terms under the offer, the raw numbers under the conclusion. The shape of the message becomes a headline with supporting material folded underneath it, which is a much better way to write than a wall.
Four uses
Only the first is what the feature is named after.
description The whole passage, out of the way
terminal Evidence underneath a conclusion
campaign Long posts that stay scannable
short_text Write the visible line deliberately
Fold what is optional, and spend the effort on the one line that stays visible.
settings Making one
- Select the text and format it as a quote From the formatting menu.
- Mark it collapsible The option sits with the quote formatting.
- Order it so the identifying part is first That line is all most people see.
- Keep the answer outside the block Only optional material goes in.
- One block per message Two is a document.
- Check it on a phone Which is where the saving happens.
This page folds a long citation. The curriculum step is the structure around it: replying to part of a message, jumping to an original, and keeping a fast conversation legible when several threads are running at once.
At a glance
- 1Collapsible quote
Fold a long quote behind one visible line.
- 2Write the first line
Say what is inside so people know whether to open it.
- 3Beyond quotes
Fold long logs or details under a summary.
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