---
{
  "title": "Sidebar & Navigation",
  "intro": "Learn to use internal and external links in Workflowy to organize and connect your information."
}
---

# When to use

**Sidebar & Navigation** give you fast access and movement across your entire Workflowy. The sidebar (toggle‑able via the hamburger menu) shows your **STARRED** items and your full **HOME** tree - you can click to jump anywhere, drag & drop bullets into it, or even add new nodes directly from it.

Breadcrumbs appear when you zoom into a list, letting you click back to any ancestor along your path.

# Breadcrumbs

As you **zoom in**, a path of breadcrumbs is created and shown in the menu bar.You can click these breadcrumbs at any part along the path to **zoom out** to that section.

When the breadcrumb path is too long, a set of ellipses will be shown '**···**'. You can mouse over these ellipses to see the rest of the hidden path and click on any of the parts.

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# Sidebar

The left-hand sidebar allows you to quickly jump to different sections of your Workflowy and also drag and drop items from the current document to a new location.

You can click on the hamburger icon in the top-left side of the menu bar to toggle the sidebar.

If the sidebar is already visible, you can click on the arrow icon to hide it.

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# STARRED section

The left-hand sidebar has two main parts, the first is the '**STARRED**' section that shows all your starred items and searches. This is where you can click on the items to navigate to them or un-star them.

# HOME section

The second section is the '**HOME**' section. This is where you'll find the entire layout of your Workflowy. You can use this section to navigate within your Workflowy or add items.

# Create items from the sidebar

You can add items directly in the left-hand sidebar without having to navigate to the section first.

{% steps %}
1. Open the left-hand sidebar
2. Navigate to the section where you want to add items
3. Hover over the parent item where you'll add nested item
4. Click on the➕  icon to the right of the item or expand the item and click on the '➕ **New node**' button
5. These steps will add a nested item and navigate to that new item.
{% /steps %}

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# Move items into the sidebar

You can move items from the current workspace into a different section of your Workflowy by dragging-and-dropping them into the sidebar.

{% steps %}
1. Open the left-hand sidebar
2. Navigate to the section you want to move items into in the sidebar
3. Drag-and-drop the item you want to move from your workspace into the sidebar
4. If you hold **SHIFT** on your keyboard and then drag-and-drop an item into the sidebar, then instead of moving an item, you'll create a live copy and drop the copy into the new location.
{% /steps %}

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# Jump to another section

You can use the keyboard to jump to different sections of your Workflowy via the “**Jump to**” menu.

{% steps %}
1. Hit Win: **CTRL** + **K**, Mac: **CMD** + **K**on your keyboard
2. Start typing the name of the item where you want to go to
3. Hit **ENTER** on your keyboard once you've found the correct item
4. Any starred items you have will show up first in the search results of the jump menu.
{% /steps %}

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