What is the Home Sidebar?

Access your notifications, tasks, conversations, and favorite items from the converged, customizable Home Sidebar. 

Your Home Sidebar is available on all plans. Your Global Navigation and Home Sidebar feature availability depends on user role. Learn more

Chat feature availability and limits vary by plan and user role. Learn more

Open your Home Sidebar

Your Home Sidebar is the center of activity where all of your work converges. Your Home Sidebar contains:

When you log in to your Workspace, your Home Sidebar is open by default. 

To open your Home Sidebar, click Home at the top of your Global Navigation. If your Home Sidebar is collapsed, click the expand icon at the top of your Global Navigation.
Screenshot of the Global Navigation with Home selected.png

Home pages notifications

The number of unread notifications displays next to each page you have pinned to the top of your Home Sidebar.

Chat notifications

Below your pinned pages at the top of your Home Sidebar, you'll see your chats. Notifications display like this:

  • Chats with unread replies are bold. 
  • Chats with unread replies to threads you follow display a thread icon. Click the icon to open the thread and view the unread reply.
  • The number of unread direct messages or unread @mentions is displayed next to the chat.

Customize your Home Sidebar

Your Home Sidebar is customizable! You can have up to 100 sections in the Home Sidebar.

Learn how to customize your Home Sidebar using the Customize menu.

Home Sidebar items

To see Chat Activity, Posts, Channels, and direct messages, the Chat ClickApp must be activated in your Workspace.

Pin items for fast access. 

Pinned and unpinned items are shared across Workspaces. When you pin or unpin an item in one Workspace, it becomes pinned or unpinned in all of your Workspaces.

These items are part of your Home Sidebar by default or can be pinned or unpinned:

Page Description

Inbox

Pinned by default. Can't be unpinned.

Communicate with your team across tasks, Docs, Lists, and more from one Inbox.

Replies

Pinned by default. Can't be unpinned.

See replies to the Chat threads you follow. 
Assigned Comments
Formerly FollowUps
See comments assigned to you and the Teams you're in. Use filters to focus on comment type and time period.
Chat Activity See all of your Chat activity. Filter by messages that @mention you, reactions to your messages, or messages that are assigned to you.
Drafts & Sent See your drafted, sent, and scheduled messages and comments.
Posts See all Posts from one centralized page, or create a new one!
All Channels View all of your Channels from one centralized page.
All Spaces

View, show, or hide all of the available Spaces in your Workspace. 

All Tasks

Formerly Everything view

All Tasks lets you see tasks from all of your Spaces and Lists in one view.
My Tasks My Tasks is a personalized section to start your day, prioritize tasks, and plan what's most important.

My Tasks

Expand My Tasks to see these tabs:

Page Description
Assigned to me See tasks that are assigned to you. 
Today & Overdue See My Tasks and Reminders.
Personal List Use Personal List to create a to-do list quickly. 

Default Home Sidebar sections

In your Home Sidebar, under the pinned Home pages, there are custom sections and default sections.

Filter your Home Sidebar

Learn how to filter your Home Sidebar. 

Create items

Learn how to create Channels, Lists, Docs, Dashboards, and more from the Home sidebar tab!

Search your Home Sidebar

Search for items from your Home Sidebar. 

Open or close your Home Sidebar

Adjust the visibility of your Home Sidebar by opening or closing it.

Adjust the width of your Home Sidebar

To adjust the width of your Home Sidebar:

  1. Hover over the Home Sidebar divider. It will become highlighted.
    Screenshot of the highlighted Home Sidebar divider.png
  2. Click and drag to adjust the width.
    • You can reset your Home Sidebar by double-clicking your mouse or trackpad.