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Navigating notes (sidebar)

The left sidebar is how you move through a Space. Show or hide it with Toggle Sidebar (Cmd+Shift+B).

Quick actions

At the top of the sidebar you get shortcuts into common views:

  • New Canvas: create an Excalidraw drawing
  • Agent: open AI chat in a workspace tab when AI is enabled
  • New Note: create a note in the current target folder
  • Pinned: notes you pinned for quick access
  • All Notes: activity timeline or classic grid of notes
  • Collections: saved table and board views
  • Connections: graph of notes and tags across the Space

Click one to open that pane. Use Settings → Sidebar to show, hide, or reorder entries. Hiding an entry does not disable the feature.

Notes tree

The Notes section shows folders and Markdown notes as a tree.

Sort

Open Sort notes and choose an order:

  • Name A-Z / Name Z-A
  • Modified newest / Modified oldest
  • Created newest / Created oldest

Pick the sort that matches how you hunt for files.

Expand and collapse

Use Expand all folders or Collapse all folders when the tree is deep. Collapse Notes / Expand Notes folds the whole Notes section in the sidebar.

Click a folder chevron to open or close that folder. Click a note to open it in the editor.

Tags and People

Below the tree, the Tags section lists tags used in the Space. People appears when you use people mentions. Click a tag or person to filter or search related notes.

Use Show more when the list is long, and Show less to shrink it again.

Context menus

Right-click a note or folder for actions. Common labels include:

Exact items depend on whether you clicked a file or a folder.

Drag to move

Drag a note or folder onto another folder in the tree to move it inside the Space. Glyph updates paths and can rewrite links when a rename or move requires it.

Prefer drag-and-drop or Move Active File inside Glyph over moving files only in Finder when notes link to each other.

Split editors

Drag a Markdown note from the file tree onto a pane’s edge to open it in a split. You can also use split commands or drag open tabs between panes. See Split editors and tabs for layouts and session restore.

Folio tree: folders only

With Folio Mode on (Settings → Appearance → Folio Mode), the sidebar tree shows folders only. Notes appear in the middle Folio list. Pick a folder (or All Notes / a tag / a person) to fill that list, then open a note in the editor column.

Tips

  • Hide the sidebar with Cmd+Shift+B when you want a wider editor.
  • Use Pinned and All Notes when the tree gets large.
  • Sidebar and navigation shortcuts are remappable in Settings → Shortcuts.