When working with portals, you may find that only some children of the bullets you’ve portaled in are relevant in the current document’s context. You can hide the children that are not relevant to keep your notes concise and helpful.

It’s possible to hide bullets that are not inside a portal as well; this is rarely that useful, though, since if the notes are not relevant in any context, the most appropriate action is usually to delete them!

Hidden bullets should not be confused with Super-Private bullets. Super-Private bullets help you prevent other people who might look at your screen from inadvertently seeing sensitive information; they still take up the same amount of space in your documents, but they say only Private unless you “unlock” the workspace by clicking on one. Hidden bullets help you semi-permanently avoid displaying bullets that aren’t relevant in some context; they aren’t shown at all in the document and take up no space until you explicitly show them again.

To hide a bullet, simply click on the bullet's text and type /hi or press Ctrl+Alt+H (Cmd+Opt+H on a Mac). The bullet will be moved to a “hidden” section.

At the bottom of a bullet that has hidden children, a Hidden Bullet Indicator will appear. Click here or press Ctrl+Shift+C (Cmd+Shift+C on a Mac), then select the bullet you want to unhide (or Add All).

You can also locate and add all hidden children of a bullet back to the document in one go with /vhc.