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Customizing the Document Sidebar

The document sidebar can be customized to show the locations in your knowledge base that are most important to you.

Written by Vlad

The center section of RemNote's left sidebar is known as the document sidebar and shows selected documents in your knowledge base.


Customizing Your Sidebar

Every document, folder, and uploaded file in your knowledge base appears in the document sidebar automatically.

You can control how much of it shows in the document sidebar by selecting one of the presets in Settings > Interface > Sidebar Organization:

  • Unpinned and Pinned documents

  • Only Pinned documents

Pinned Section: This section shows all documents you've pinned by clicking the star icon in the upper-right corner of any document or folder.

A red arrow pointing to the star icon in the upper-right corner of an open document.

Pinned documents are unrelated to and should not be confused with pins, which are a type of Reference.

Unpinned Section: This will show all other documents in your knowledge base in a hierarchy.


Additional sidebar items

In addition, you can further customize your sidebar by using these options in the same Settings > Interface section:

  • Sync Indicator: Show a syncing indicator dot in the top left.

  • Cleaner Sidebar: Hide links to Tutorials, Settings and the Referral program at the bottom of the sidebar.

  • Show AI Tutor on Sidebar: Show the AI Tutor link in the left sidebar.

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