# Find your way around Prior

> The sidebar and the phone tab bar, what each space is for, how to show or hide spaces in your menu, pin projects and jump to any page.

Source: https://priortasks.com/docs/getting-started/navigation/
Last updated: 2026-11-05

On a computer or a tablet, Prior has a sidebar on the left. On a phone, it has a tab bar at the bottom. Both lead to the same spaces.

## The sidebar

| Group | Spaces |
| --- | --- |
| Focus | **Today**, **Focus** (the Pomodoro timer), **Inbox** (your email), **Calendar** |
| Organize | **Projects**, **My tasks**, **All tasks** |
| Review | **Waiting**, **Priority lens**, **Habits**, **Flashcards**, **Notes** |
| Account | **Progress** (Game mode only) and **Plans** |

Above the groups, **Search** opens the [command palette](https://priortasks.com/docs/getting-started/command-palette/). A **Pinned** group lists up to seven projects you pinned, with their open task count. Pin a project from its ••• menu on **Projects**, from the palette while it is open, or unpin it by right-clicking it in the sidebar.

At the bottom you find:

- **Discover**, with a ring that fills as you try chapters. See [Discover](https://priortasks.com/docs/getting-started/discover/).
- A small timer when a Focus session is running. Click it to open the timer.
- A sync indicator. See [Offline use and sync](https://priortasks.com/docs/getting-started/offline-and-sync/).
- **Prior AI**, the assistant, with <kbd>Cmd</kbd> <kbd>J</kbd> or <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> <kbd>J</kbd>.
- **Help**, the question mark next to your name: **Help with this page**, **Help center**, **Contact support**, **Keyboard shortcuts**, **What's new** and **Prior website**.
- Your account menu: **Account…**, **Settings**, the theme and **Sign out**. In the desktop app, a download button appears next to it when an update is waiting. Click it to install and restart.

The arrow at the top collapses the sidebar to icons. In a narrow window it opens over the page and closes when you pick a page.

> [!note]
> **Inbox** in the sidebar is your email, read from a connected Gmail account, where you can turn a message into a task. It is not the **Inbox** status of a task. See [Statuses and the Inbox](https://priortasks.com/docs/tasks/statuses-and-inbox/).

## On a phone

The tab bar has **Today**, **Tasks** (All tasks), a **+** button in the middle that creates a task, a fourth tab and **More**. The fourth tab is **Projects**, or **Discover** until Projects is in your menu. **More** holds every other space as a tile, your pinned projects, **Import**, a sync row and your account. On pages with a top bar, like All tasks, a search icon opens the palette.

## Choose the spaces in your menu

**Today** and **All tasks** always stay. Every other space is optional: Projects, Calendar, Focus, Priority lens, Habits, Flashcards, Notes, Mail inbox, Waiting and My tasks (when you are signed in). A new account starts with the spaces of the goals it picked, and a space joins the menu when you start its chapter in [Discover](https://priortasks.com/docs/getting-started/discover/).

To change it, open **Settings → General → Navigation** and use the switches. A hidden space leaves the sidebar and the **More** screen, but its page still opens from the palette and from its address. The page you are on stays in the sidebar while it is open. Accounts created before this choice existed keep every space until they choose. The same list can add a space in one step from **Discover**.

## Addresses

Every page has its own address in the web app, so you can bookmark it, and a reload reopens the same page:

| Page | Address |
| --- | --- |
| Today | `/today` |
| All tasks, My tasks | `/tasks`, `/my-tasks` |
| Priority lens | `/matrix` |
| Waiting | `/waiting` |
| Projects and a project | `/projects`, `/projects/<id>` |
| Calendar, Habits, Focus | `/calendar`, `/habits`, `/focus` |
| Notes, Flashcards | `/notes`, `/flashcards` |
| Mail inbox | `/inbox` |
| Discover, Settings | `/discover`, `/settings` |

Adding `?task=<id>` to any address opens that task on top of the page. **Copy link** in a task's menu gives you this address. On desktop, <kbd>Cmd</kbd> <kbd>[</kbd> and <kbd>Cmd</kbd> <kbd>]</kbd> (<kbd>Alt</kbd> <kbd>←</kbd> and <kbd>Alt</kbd> <kbd>→</kbd> on Windows and Linux) go back and forward, and so do the mouse side buttons.

## Move faster

Press <kbd>G</kbd> then a letter to jump to a page: <kbd>G</kbd> <kbd>T</kbd> Today, <kbd>G</kbd> <kbd>A</kbd> All tasks, <kbd>G</kbd> <kbd>P</kbd> Projects, and more. See [Keyboard shortcuts](https://priortasks.com/docs/getting-started/keyboard-shortcuts/).