# Tab layout persistence between sessions of AT

**URL:** <https://community.anytype.io/t/tab-layout-persistence-between-sessions-of-at/31203>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Tags:** Design-or-UI, UX, Tabs\
**Created:** [September 2, 2026, 11:13pm UTC](https://community.anytype.io/t/tab-layout-persistence-between-sessions-of-at/31203 "2026-09-02T23:13:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Astro-L](https://community.anytype.io/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@Astro-L](https://community.anytype.io/u/Astro-L)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2026, 11:13pm UTC](https://community.anytype.io/t/tab-layout-persistence-between-sessions-of-at/31203/1 "2026-09-02T23:13:30Z")

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#### WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND?

Make it so each tab retains its own layout options from the previous session after restarting AT.

#### REAL WORLD USE CASES

I use the sidebar for navigation, which naturally changes the content of the current tab unless one right-clicks and opens new tabs when navigating. Changing the content is fine for some tabs, but I have several tabs I like to keep open perpetually, and if I accidentally navigate away from one or more them and then notice later, I have to reset it/them. An easy way to prevent this is by hiding the sidebar on those tabs, but unfortunately this doesn’t persist. When I restart AT, the state of the last viewed tab is the only one that carries over. Each subsequent tab I switch to picks up the layout of the previous one I had been viewing.

#### RECOMMENDED ALTERNATIVES

If I’m mindful, I can set the layout of each tab manually at the beginning of the session. In the grand scheme, this is a small task, but it would be great if I didn’t even have to think about it.

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**Author:** ![kaye](https://community.anytype.io/user_avatar/community.anytype.io/kaye/32/26600_2.png) [@kaye](https://community.anytype.io/u/kaye)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2026, 11:37pm UTC](https://community.anytype.io/t/tab-layout-persistence-between-sessions-of-at/31203/2 "2026-09-02T23:37:07Z")

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Yes, it’s a pet-peeve of my own as well. We have this in our tracker (because I wrote it myself), but it’s just lower on priority as you can likely imagine.

I set shortcuts for the sidebars and just set them up quickly as I need. However, to be fair, I rarely restart Anytype or my desktop.

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**Author:** ![Astro-L](https://community.anytype.io/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@Astro-L](https://community.anytype.io/u/Astro-L)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2026, 11:56pm UTC](https://community.anytype.io/t/tab-layout-persistence-between-sessions-of-at/31203/3 "2026-09-02T23:56:04Z")

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Nice to hear it’s on the radar, thank you. And yeah, I figured it wouldn’t exactly be a top priority. I was wondering as I was writing it if there’s such a thing as a too-frivolous feature request. If there is, it sounds like I haven’t written it yet!