Today, we’re excited to release the biggest enhancement to Dokkio Sidebar since MultiSearch!

Sidebar 4 brings a better user experience and new features that make Sidebar less intrusive, more useful, and easier to understand.

The changes you will see in Sidebar 4 include:

• New Panel: Sidebar 4 appears as a full-height overlay panel on the right-hand side of the browser window, instead of a smaller floating panel. This provides a clearer split between page contents and Sidebar, and it gives Sidebar more room to surface your valuable information.
• Easy to dismiss: Rather than having to explicitly “X” out of Sidebar to dismiss it, you can click anywhere in the body of the page you are viewing to hide Sidebar.
• In-line MultiSearch for web searches: When you do a web search, Sidebar now presents MultiSearch results in-line with the rest of your Google, Bing, or Yahoo results. So Sidebar does not obscure important page content; the Sidebar search results blend right in.
• In-line MultiSearch for Gmail searches: In Gmail, Sidebar now shows MultiSearch results in a one-line “mini-banner” at the top of the page, rather than covering any page content.
• Enhanced LinkedIn, Facebook and YouTube pages: When viewing a profile page (for a person or organization), Sidebar automatically shows related information from your content.
• New “Important” Tab: Dokkio understands your content, identifies the new or revised items that may be most relevant to you, and surfaces it – just one click away – on the “Important” tab.
• Improved UX: Sidebar 4 has a cleaner, more intuitive look and terminology. Feature tabs have moved to the top of Sidebar, clip & screenshot buttons are handier, lists of files, emails, and pages provide more context, and we’ve renamed “Saved” Pages to “Visited” Pages for clarity.
• Improved Auto-Capture of Visited Pages: The Sidebar icon and panel more clearly indicate when you are, or aren’t, automatically capturing and tagging the pages you visit.

If you tried Sidebar in the past, and removed it because it was “too aggressive”, you owe it to yourself to try it again! We’re confident that Sidebar 4 delivers a lot more value and a much clearer UX.

You can install (or re-install) Sidebar for Chrome or Edge for free — or sign up for a free demo — through the following link:

Install Dokkio Sidebar 4

If you already have Sidebar installed, it should automatically update to version 4 today.

As always, please reach out to support@dokkio.com if you have questions or feedback. Many of the improvements in Sidebar 4 are the direct result of feedback from users like you.

If you like what we’ve done with Sidebar 4, please leave a rating and a review in the Chrome Web Store or Microsoft Edge Add-ons. We get a significant percentage of new Dokkio users from our listings.