Teamwork.com's refreshed navigation makes it easier to find your work and personalize your sidebar. If you're familiar with the previous navigation, you may notice that some areas have moved. This guide highlights the current navigation experience and answers common questions about the update in the FAQ below.

Teamwork.com navigation helps you move around your workspace, find work quickly, and keep the areas you use most within reach.

Teamwork.com has two navigation layers that work together: workspace navigation and project navigation.

Workspace navigation helps you move around your Teamwork.com site, including areas such as Home, Projects, search, notifications, and settings.

Project navigation appears when you open a project and helps you move between the tabs and views available inside that project. To learn more, see Manage project tabs and navigation.

Teamwork.com workspace navigation

The sidebar groups related areas together to help reduce clutter and make navigation easier. Use this navigation menu to move between the main areas of Teamwork.com and keep important work easy to access.
  • Home is your starting point for work that is relevant to you.
  • Inbox gives you quick access to updates related to your own work, items you're contributing to, and communications via messages and comments.
  • Top-level areas such as Projects, Tasks, Time, and other available sections enable you to move directly into common workflows.
  • More gives you access to other items that are available but not shown directly in the main sidebar.

Available sidebar items may vary depending on your role, permissions, plan, or enabled features.

Use Recent to quickly return to work you have opened or interacted with recently.
  • Open Recent from the sidebar to view recently accessed work.
  • Use the search field in Recent to narrow the list.
  • Use filters such as All, Projects, Tasks, and Comments where available.
  • Select an item to open it directly.

If you previously used Jump To to switch quickly between work, use Recent and search to return to projects, tasks, comments, and other recently accessed items.

The More area gives you access to navigation items that are available but not shown directly in the main sidebar, such as Calendar, Proofs, Templates, Everything, and other available tools.
  • Some items in More may include nested menus, such as Projects or Everything.
  • Items shown in More depend on your permissions, enabled features, and sidebar customization choices.

Customize your sidebar to focus navigation around the areas you use most often.

Sidebar customization only changes your own navigation experience. It does not change how other people see Teamwork.com.

You can customize your sidebar to:
  • Reorder sidebar items to make frequently used areas easier to reach.
  • Show or hide sidebar items based on how you work.
  • Move less-used items to More so they stay available without cluttering your sidebar.
  • Control visibility for areas such as starred and recent projects where available.
  • Reset your sidebar layout back to the default setup if needed.

Use the Organize tab to control the structure and layout of your sidebar.
  1. Hover over the Manage or Plan & Insights heading in the sidebar and click the customize icon.
  2. If those sections are not available in your sidebar, look for Customize sidebar elsewhere in the navigation.
  3. Open the Organize tab.
  4. Use the toggles to show or hide items.
  5. Drag and drop items to reorder how they appear in the sidebar.
    Customize sidebar Organize tab
  6. Click Save to apply your changes.

Use the Display tab to control sidebar appearance and visibility settings.
  1. Open the Display tab in the sidebar customization window.
  2. Choose a light or dark sidebar theme for your own navigation experience.
  3. Show or hide Starred and Recent projects as sidebar menu items.
    Customize sidebar Display tab
  4. Click Save to apply your changes.

Use search to jump directly to work without browsing through navigation areas.
  • Search for projects, tasks, custom items, people, milestones, comments, and other work in Teamwork.com.
  • Review recently accessed items when the search menu opens.
  • Use search when you already know the name of the item, person, or project you want to open.
  • Select Advanced search to open a fuller search results view where available.
  • When searching from inside a project, use the project search option where available to limit results to that project.
  • Select a result to open it directly.

Search is often the fastest way to move around Teamwork.com when you know what you are looking for.

Teamwork.com search window

Use Quick add in the sidebar to create work from anywhere in Teamwork.com without navigating away from your current area.
  1. Select Quick add in the sidebar.
  2. Select the type of work you want to create.
  3. Complete the item details and save your changes.

Depending on your permissions, enabled features, and current location, Quick add can include options such as:
  • Work: Task, project, message, milestone, event, and custom work types.
  • Time: Start timer and log time.
  • People: Invite users to your site or, when viewing a project, add people to the project.
  • Project-only options: Some options, such as project updates, may only appear when you are viewing a project.

Keyboard shortcuts may also be available for supported Quick add actions.

Teamwork.com Quick add menu

Use Inbox and notifications to stay up to date with activity across your work.
  • Use Inbox as the first place to review updates related to items you are assigned to, following, or mentioned in.
  • Use the notification bell to review alerts and recent activity that may need your attention.
  • The notification icon can show a count of unread notifications.
  • Select an inbox item or notification to open the related item directly.
  • What you see may vary depending on your role, activity, and notification settings.

Teamwork.com Inbox and notifications

Use your profile or avatar menu to access personal settings and account-related options.
  1. Select your profile image or avatar in the top navigation.
  2. Open your personal settings, preferences, or account options.
  3. Use this area to manage your profile, appearance settings, notifications, and sign-in preferences.
  4. Some options, such as site settings, subscription, apps, and integrations, may only be available to users with the right permissions.

Some workspace areas and settings are only available to users with the right permissions or admin access.

Depending on your site setup and permissions, you may see additional tools in the top navigation or sidebar.
  • Use the apps or product switcher menu, where available, to move between enabled Teamwork.com products.
  • Use embedded chat options where available to access connected chat tools.
  • Options such as Resourcing, Reporting, Clients, Time, and People may vary by user type, permissions, or enabled features.

When you open a project, the navigation changes to show project-level tabs and views.

Use project navigation to move between the different areas and workflows available inside a project.

To learn how to manage project tabs, reorder views, control which tabs appear, or use the project More... menu, see Manage project tabs and navigation.

The Teamwork.com navigation has been refreshed to make it easier to find work, move between key areas, and customize your sidebar around how you work.
Tasks now has its own top-level sidebar area, making it quicker to access task-focused work across projects without first opening Everything.
Recent and search now provide the main ways to quickly return to projects, tasks, comments, and other recently accessed work in Teamwork.com.
Available navigation areas may vary depending on your permissions, user type, enabled features, subscription plan, or sidebar customization settings.
Yes. You can reorder sidebar items, show or hide sections, and move less-used areas into More to better match how you work.
Workspace navigation helps you move between the main areas of Teamwork.com. Project navigation appears when you open a project and gives access to project-level tabs, views, and workflows.