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# Customize your navigation

Customize Navigation is where you decide exactly what your sidebar contains while Focus Mode is on — which pages appear, how they are grouped, what order they sit in, and where you land after signing in.

| 📍 **Where to find this:** Turn on **Focus Mode**, then click **Customize Navigation**

## ✅ What you can do

* Switch individual pages on and off
* Collapse a system label's pages into a dropdown, or leave them as separate items
* Create your own labels and put any pages under them
* Drag your sidebar into the order you want
* Choose your landing page after login

![Customize Navigation](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/8/c/a/c/8cac159472d82800/focus-customize-modal_1biyxx1.png =650x684)

## ❓ How it works

Click **How it works** at the top of the window for a four-step walkthrough. It covers the same ground as the sections below.

![How focus navigation works](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/8/c/a/c/8cac159472d82800/focus-guide_qprs9y.png =610x182)

## 📌 Pin individual pages

1. Find the page in the list.
2. Switch it on.
* It appears in your sidebar on its own, with no menu to expand.

|| ℹ️ This is the quickest setup. If you only ever use the booking calendar, pin that one page and skip labels entirely.

## 🗂️ Group pages under a system label

Each area — Record System, Booking System, POS, QMS, Reports, Templates, Communication, General Settings — appears as a label with its pages beneath it.

1. Switch on the pages you want from that area.
2. Turn the **label** switch on to collapse them into a dropdown.
* Leave the label switch off and those pages stay in your sidebar as separate items.

|| ℹ️ The hint under each label says **Group active pages under this label** — that switch controls grouping, not whether the pages appear. The page switches control that.

|| ℹ️ **General Settings** is all-or-nothing: it has a single switch rather than one per page.

|| ℹ️ **Clients** and **Apps** are single pages, so they are always standalone and never become dropdowns.

## 🏷️ Create your own labels

1. Click **+ Add label**.
2. Type a **Label name**.
3. Use **Add page…** to place any pages under it.

|| ℹ️ You can mix pages from different areas under one label — put the booking calendar and your SMS campaigns together if that is how you work.

|| ℹ️ Empty labels are hidden, so a label you have not filled yet will not clutter your sidebar.

## ↕️ Reorder your sidebar

Under **Your sidebar order**, drag items into the order you want using the handle on the left. Click the **×** on an item to remove it.

## 🚪 Choose your landing page

1. Open the **Landing page after login** dropdown.
2. Choose the page you want to see straight after signing in.

||| ⚠️ You can only choose from pages you have kept in your sidebar. If you remove the page you had chosen, MERIDIQ picks another one for you — so check this field before saving.

## 💾 Save your changes

1. Click **Save**.
* Your sidebar updates immediately.
2. Click **Cancel** to close without changing anything.

||| ⚠️ You must keep **at least one** page. Saving with everything switched off shows **Select at least one item to keep in your sidebar.**

|| ℹ️ If the sidebar ever shows **None of your pinned items are available**, the pages you pinned are no longer accessible to you — usually because a module was turned off for your account. Open Customize Navigation and pick new ones.

| 💡 Your choices are saved to your account, so they follow you to any device you sign in on. To switch the whole thing off, see [Focus Mode overview](https://help.meridiq.com/en/article/focus-mode-overview-1sqcqio/).