Reorganize Sidebar

We’re thinking about how best to provide this interface in the app, but if you’re feeling adventurous, you can actually do this now:

First, make sure you’ve “starred” a perspective to give it a permanent home in your sidebar.

Next, we’re going to reset your sidebar so that you can find your perspective’s permanent id by opening this URL:

omnifocus:///change-preference?SidebarTabs

All your tabs will be reset to their basic settings, and you’ll see a dialog that looks something like this:

In that screenshot, my perspective’s id is “hdDT8UyDkVe”, and I’m going to move it to the top of my sidebar and drop everything else except for Forecast and the Inbox by changing that preference setting:

omnifocus:///change-preference?SidebarTabs=(hdDT8UyDkVe,ForecastTab,InboxTab)

Voila! My sidebar now includes just the items I want, in the order I want them:

If something goes wrong, I can reset the sidebar using that original link.


But, again, we’re thinking about how best to provide an interface to this in the app—we don’t expect every user to go through this adventure!

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