The Plekt sidebar is the starting point for every regular workflow. It keeps the main pages, sync status, appearance controls, and instance actions in one consistent place.
Main navigation
The main sidebar links to:
- Dashboard for active playback, the Up Next queue, and recent completed TV and movie history;
- Movies for tracked movie records;
- TV Shows for tracked series, seasons, episodes, and progress;
- Upcoming for episode air dates;
- Discover for current TMDB-backed movie and TV feeds;
- Watchlist for media saved for later;
- Playlists for ordered collections that can sync to Plex, Emby, or Jellyfin;
- Ratings for private 1–10 scores across movies, shows, and episodes;
- History for the durable watch-event archive; and
- Stats for reports and viewing breakdowns.
Below these, the sidebar also holds Settings for connections, metadata, sync tools, backups, diagnostics, and maintenance, the Appearance panel, and About.
When a review decision is pending, the sidebar status area also links to Manual Watch review. The documentation sidebar keeps Sync Activity, Manual Watch review, and Guides as separate top-level paths so the review workflow is easy to find without opening Settings first.
Select a title, poster, or history row when you need to open its media details. Discovery cards and cards from Watchlist, Ratings, or Playlists use the same detail routes, so a title can move between workflows without creating a duplicate library record.
Sidebar status and actions
The sidebar can show project links, including Discord and Reddit. Use Hide Links to hide the project links when you do not need them.
The lower part of the sidebar contains controls that are available across pages:
- Complete onboarding appears while the instance still has unfinished setup steps.
- The Sync indicator opens Sync Activity. Its status is a summary, so read the activity row or Settings → Logs for the detailed reason.
- Attention - Issue appears when a restore or sync item needs repair; use it to open the grouped attention panel and follow the retry, skip, or Fix Match action.
- The app version at the bottom of the sidebar opens Settings → Changelog for the release history.
Appearance panel
Appearance sits in the sidebar between Settings and About. It opens a panel with these controls:
- Light / Dark changes the colour mode. The choice is saved in this browser.
- Card Art shows or hides artwork behind cards. Background Art shows or hides backdrop artwork on the Dashboard and detail pages. Both choices are saved in this browser.
- Text size (100% to 130%) scales the text on every page.
- On movie and TV detail pages, the same panel also holds the optional section switches for Logo Art, Cast Members, Trailers & Clips, Reviews, Images, and Related Shows.
On phones, open the navigation drawer to reach the Appearance panel. For what each switch changes on a page, see Appearance.
Page navigation
The selected sidebar item identifies the current page. On documentation pages, the right-hand On this page menu jumps to sections within that page and accounts for the sticky navigation bar.
Use the browser back button when you want to return to the previous page or detail view.
When you return to an app page, Plekt refreshes its data, starts the page at the top, and folds any open Posters only card. Selecting the current sidebar item reloads that page from the top. Live updates reconnect after the computer wakes from sleep so visible lists can catch up with changes made while the connection was idle.