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# Focus Mode overview

Focus Mode simplifies your left navigation menu down to the pages you actually use. Switch it on, choose what to keep, and everything else disappears from your sidebar.

| 📍 **Where to find this:** The **Focus Mode** switch at the bottom of the left navigation menu

|| ℹ️ Focus Mode is marked **BETA** and is a personal setting — it changes only your sidebar. Your colleagues keep their own.

## ✅ What you can do

* Hide the menu items you never open
* Pin individual pages so they sit on their own, without a menu to expand
* Group pages under system labels or your own custom labels
* Drag your sidebar into the order you want
* Choose which page you land on straight after signing in
* Switch it off at any time and get the full menu back

## 🎯 Turn Focus Mode on

1. Scroll to the bottom of the left navigation menu.
2. Click the **Focus Mode** switch.
* The subtitle changes from **Simplify your sidebar** to **Focus mode is on**.
* Your sidebar immediately shrinks to your chosen items.
3. Click **Customize Navigation** to choose what to keep.

![Focus Mode switch](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/8/c/a/c/8cac159472d82800/focus-sidebar-after_13115jc.png =290x200)

|| ℹ️ Until you choose anything, Focus Mode keeps **Clients** only. That is the starting point, not a limit — open Customize Navigation and add whatever you need.

## ↩️ Turn it off again

1. Click the **Focus Mode** switch again.
* The full menu returns immediately.

|| ℹ️ Turning Focus Mode off does not erase your choices. Switch it back on and your pinned pages, labels, order and landing page are all still there.

## 🖥️ Your normal sidebar, for comparison

![Full sidebar](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/8/c/a/c/8cac159472d82800/focus-sidebar-before_28cxgo.png =290x690)

| 💡 To pick your pages, build labels and set a landing page, see [Customize your navigation](https://help.meridiq.com/en/article/customize-your-navigation-nl5r97/).