How the sidebar is laid out
From top to bottom:
- Favorites: icons for the sites you use most. They are shared by every Space that uses the same Profile.
- Pinned tabs and folders: what you come back to in this Space. They stay until you remove them.
- The divider, with Clear on its right.
- Today tabs: everything you open along the way. They are archived after they have been idle for a while (see Today and the archive).
- The Space dock at the bottom: one icon per Space, and + to make a new one.
Spaces
Make one Space for each part of your life: work, home, a class, a project. Each Space has its own pinned tabs, Today tabs, theme color and icon.
- Create one with + in the dock or Spaces ▸ New Space….
- Switch with ⌃1–⌃9, ⌥⌘← / ⌥⌘→, a click in the dock, or a two-finger swipe on the sidebar.
- Right-click the Space name to rename it, change its theme color and icon, choose its Profile (Set Profile), or delete it. Deleting a Space archives its tabs.
- Rearrange Spaces by dragging their dock icons, or in the Library (⇧⌘L) ▸ Spaces.
Pinned tabs
Pin what you return to. Drag a tab above the divider, or press ⌘D. Unpin with ⌘D again.
A pinned tab remembers the page you pinned. If you wander off, Reset Tab to Original URL (right-click the tab) takes it back. The — button on a pinned tab closes its page but keeps the pin in place.
Folders
Right-click in the pinned area and choose New Folder…, then drag tabs into it. Folders can hold other folders. Hover over a closed folder for a quick list of what is inside.
Favorites
Drag a tab into the grid at the top of the sidebar to make it a Favorite. Favorites are the same in every Space of a Profile, so they suit mail, calendars and chat.
Today tabs and Clear
Today tabs collect everything you open. Click Clear on the divider (⇧⌘K) to archive all of them at once. Nothing is lost: archived tabs are in Archive ▸ View Archive… and the command bar finds them.
Keep it tidy
- Pin only what you open every week; let the rest live in Today.
- Use a Space per context rather than one long list.
- Give a Space its own Profile to keep its sign-ins apart.
- Put two to four pages side by side with Split View instead of switching back and forth.
- Use ⌃Space (Reveal Current Tab) to find the selected tab in a long sidebar.