The sidebar collapses now
Collapse the navigation sidebar to give tables and analytics the full width of your screen. Your choice is remembered between sessions.
The sidebar collapses now
The navigation sidebar can now be collapsed. Click the control at its edge and it folds to a narrow strip of icons, giving the rest of the screen back to whatever you are actually working on.
What changed
The sidebar was always open, taking a fixed slice of the window whether you needed it or not. On a wide screen that is a reasonable trade. On a laptop it is a meaningful portion of the space, spent on links you use once an hour.
The screens that suffer are the wide ones. Lead tables have columns that get squeezed until the useful ones are cut off. Analytics comparisons need horizontal room to be readable. The campaign editor benefits from seeing more of the email at once.
Collapsing gives that space back. The sidebar becomes a strip of icons, still there, still clickable, taking a fraction of the width. Hovering shows the labels, so nothing becomes unfindable.
Your choice persists. Collapse it once and it stays collapsed on your next visit, on that device.
How to use it
The control sits at the edge of the sidebar. Click it to collapse, click it again to expand.
Collapsed, navigation works from the icons. Hover to see what each one is. Everything remains reachable, nothing is hidden behind an extra click.
The setting is yours and yours only. It does not affect anyone else on your team, and each of them keeps their own.
Why it matters
Screens are not getting wider as fast as tables are getting more columns. A lead table with company, title, status, campaign, last activity and score needs room, and the alternative to room is horizontal scrolling, which makes a table much harder to read than a narrow one.
The gain is largest exactly where it is most needed. Nobody needs extra width on the settings screen. Everybody needs it when comparing six campaigns or scanning a list of two hundred leads.
Keeping it as a choice rather than an automatic behaviour matters too. Some people navigate constantly and want the labels. Some open one screen and stay there. Neither is wrong, and a product that decided for them would annoy half of them.
Small screens
On narrow windows the sidebar was already collapsing on its own, and it still does. The manual control adds the ability to collapse it on a wide screen, where nothing was forcing the issue.
If you work on a laptop and dock to an external monitor, you may want it collapsed in one and expanded in the other. The preference is stored per device, so that works without fighting you each time you plug in.
Where the width goes
Tables use it for columns, showing more of them before anything needs to scroll sideways.
Analytics uses it for charts, which get wider rather than taller, so a time series covers more days at the same readability.
The campaign editor uses it to show more of the email at once, which makes it easier to judge how a message reads as a whole rather than in a narrow column that misrepresents the line breaks.
The state is yours alone
Collapsing the sidebar changes nothing for anyone else in the workspace. It is a display preference stored per person and per device, not a workspace setting.
This is worth saying explicitly because plenty of settings in the product are shared, and it is reasonable to hesitate before changing something in case a colleague finds their screen rearranged. This one cannot do that.
It also means there is no wrong choice to make. Try it collapsed for a day, and if you miss the labels, expand it again.
Keyboard and accessibility
The collapse control is reachable by keyboard and announces its state, so it is usable without a mouse and by anyone using a screen reader.
Collapsed navigation keeps its labels available to assistive technology even though they are visually hidden, so nothing becomes unlabelled. An icon with no accessible name is a dead end for a screen reader, and a collapsed sidebar full of them would have been worse than no collapse at all.
Focus order is unchanged in either state, so tabbing through the interface works the same way whether the sidebar is open or folded.
Why not collapse it automatically
An automatic collapse based on what screen you are on would be wrong about half the time. Somebody comparing campaigns may want to jump between them constantly, which needs the labels, while somebody else on the same screen is reading one table and wants the width.
Guessing between those two produces a sidebar that opens and closes on its own, which is more disruptive than either state. Leaving the decision with the person is the boring answer and the right one.
The narrow window behaviour is the exception, because there the space genuinely is not available and no preference can create it.
Where the preference lives
The choice is stored in your browser, which is why it is per device rather than per account. A different laptop, or the same laptop in a different browser, starts expanded.
Clearing your browser data resets it, along with every other site preference stored the same way. This is a minor annoyance rather than a problem, since expanding or collapsing it again takes one click.
Nothing about the preference is sent anywhere or attached to your account, because there is no reason for it to be.
Availability
Available now on all plans. The control is at the edge of the sidebar and your preference is remembered per device.