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# Interface | The Sidebar Menu

Airmail app makes use of a customizable Sidebar Menu to make navigating the app easy and straightforward. This article only covers the basic features of the Sidebar Menu. 
To find out how to customize it, [click here](https://help.airmailapp.com/en-us/article/interface-or-customise-sidebar-menu-ir6dae/).

###### How to access the Sidebar Menu

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Option 1:

To access the Sidebar Menu, simple click on the menu icon in the top left corner on the app, which 
will reveal the menu.
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Option 2:

Swipe to the right. As soon as you start to swipe from left to right, the Sidebar Menu will be revealed.

###### Sidebar Menu Items

As mentioned before the menu's main function is to make navigation of the app simple and straightforward. 

The following sections form part of the menu.

###### 1. Account List

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The first section in the menu shows all the different email accounts setup on Airmail. 
To view the Inbox of a single email account, simply click on the relevant account.

To view all the different inboxes of the accounts, click on All Inboxes

###### 2. Contacts

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This section allows for access to your contacts by clicking on the Contacts link.

 But this sections also gives quick access to your Favourite/VIP contacts. Each contact selected as a 
 Favourite will appear in the Menu. This allows for quick access to emails from that specific contact.

To learn how to set a contact as VIP, [click here](https://help.airmailapp.com/en-us/article/contacts-or-set-as-vip-1ox48sc/).

###### 3. Airmail Dedicated Folders

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 The third section contains the Airmail dedicated folders, which are the folders used for Airmail specific 
 features.

**Starred:** All messages that are marked as Starred/Flagged
**To Do:** All messages that are marked as To Do
**Memo:** All messages that are marked as a Memo
**Done:** All messages that are marked as Done
**Snooze: ** All messages that have been Snoozed
**Send later:** All messages that have been scheduled to be sent for a specific later point of time. 
**Read Receipts:** All messages that have been sent using the Read Receipt feature. 

###### 4. Documents

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 Upon tapping on documents a list of email with attachments and their attachments will be displayed per 
 account. This is useful for quickly looking for an attachment.

###### 5. Folders

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The folders list shows links to specific folders or message groups:

Today: All emails received today
Unread: All unread mails
Conversations: All messages are displayed in conversation view.
Drafts: Messages in draft format
Sent Mail: All Sent Mail
Labels: Access to all all folders/labels of the email accounts.
All Mail: All mail in all folders
Important: Messages marked as Important
Trash: All the messages that have been deleted
Spam: All messages marked as SPAM.

_ The list of folders above are grouped together for purpose of this article and can be customised. _

###### 6. Operations

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The operations options, displayed a list of all the actions taken by Airmail app. For example when message has been displayed as read, or moved.