# New Space Selector - sidebar / CTRL + Tab Switcher

**URL:** <https://community.anytype.io/t/new-space-selector-sidebar-ctrl-tab-switcher/22529>\
**Category:** Implemented\
**Tags:** Navigation, Keys-Shortcuts, Design-or-UI, Sidebar, Spaces\
**Created:** [July 9, 2024, 12:32pm UTC](https://community.anytype.io/t/new-space-selector-sidebar-ctrl-tab-switcher/22529 "2024-07-09T12:32:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![C.c](https://community.anytype.io/user_avatar/community.anytype.io/c.c/32/10820_2.png) [@C.c](https://community.anytype.io/u/C.c)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 8:45am UTC](https://community.anytype.io/t/new-space-selector-sidebar-ctrl-tab-switcher/22529/18 "2024-07-13T08:45:40Z")

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**What if we make widget/space selector a two stage design instead of the current two separate bars?**  
Stage one: the narrow bar (with icons only) demonstrated in June 2024 town hall (for space)  
Stage two: expand into the current sidebar (allowing more information) - clickable or non-clickable

- Good for users who just want icons for objects could easily access the options by muscle memory
- Less occupied screen space unless needed and more likely to be kept on screen; good for [mobile landscape](https://community.anytype.io/t/mobile-landscape-mode/1102) too.
- Weakness: stage one bar is always nicer looking for objects/spaces with icons… if objects only have names, they would be harder to identify

### Method 1

Content display for Stage one: both space and objects  
Content for Stage two: full title of space/objects

- This way users with one/few space could utilise this bar as well.
- Treating space and objects equally (since space selector is technically an object selector as well, but just for the space default homepage object)
- Customisability: Have the possibility to users can customise and switch narrow as stage two and broad sidebar as stage one, or always disable one view of sidebar.
- Weakness of this method: the boundary/awareness between space thus authorisation of access for space/object might be reduced

### Method 2

Stage one: Further divide bar into two sections, with a line between the space (something like macOS’s dock in left/right position where the top is pinned application, bottom is recent application):

- For Anytype, I suggest **Top for space in use** and **bottom for ‘pinned objects/widgets’ for the space in use**.

Stage two:

- Top section for space selector (maybe horizontal display of spaces’ icon?)
- Bottom section for title/full widget

Sleek design suggestion for stage two (not necessary): only display ‘pop-up’ for the requested/hovered option. Something like windows’ taskbar, but rather than object preview, have only title/widget. This design won’t work with the customisability mentioned above in method 1.

Edit: I removed my ideas based on wrong observations.

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[Vertical/flipping tab](https://community.anytype.io/t/add-tabs/1455/41) might work hand-in-hand with narrow sidebar:

- Reducing the need of an additional tab bar
- Allow pinning of always shown space/object
- Design which prioritising icons might not serve tabs the best since title of objects are probably needed.
- If implemented with method 2, I suggest, for design of stage one, grouping objects with their respective space. This would make working with multiple panes with different objects from different spaces feasible.

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