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# Organize the streams sidebar
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At an organization level, we recommend starting with a few streams and
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growing organically, and doing a cleanup once every year or two to archive
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streams that are no longer relevant.
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Nevertheless, over time, it's easy to end up with more streams than you have
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room for in the left sidebar.
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Zulip tries to help by automatically pushes inactive streams to the bottom.
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Zulip automatically moves inactive streams to the bottom
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## Related articles
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* [Mute a stream](/help/mute-a-stream)
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On Zulip, it is useful to organize streams in the sidebar in order to easily
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access streams which you use frequently. This is because streams are initially
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arranged alphabetically which makes it difficult to quickly access your
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frequently used streams.
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Furthermore, the **Streams** sidebar auto-organizes some streams. Inactive
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streams move down the list whereas active ones get moved up the list.
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In order to organize streams, you can use three methods: pinning, searching and
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muting.
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## Pinning
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Pinning a stream on Zulip pushes the stream to the top of your **Streams**
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sidebar and sticks/pins it there so that it stays at the top of your **Streams**
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sidebar.
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To learn more about pinning a stream, see [here](/help/pin-a-stream).
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## Searching
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If you don't have a stream pinned, you can search for it instead of scrolling
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through the alphabetically ordered list.
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1. On the left sidebar in the **Streams** section, click the **search**
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(<i class="fa fa-search" aria-hidden="true"></i>) icon in the top
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right-hand corner.
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!!! tip ""
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You can also use the hotkey "w" to open the search box directly
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2. A text box entitled **Filter streams** will appear. You can type the
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name of a stream into this box and the **Streams** section will be filtered
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accordingly.
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## Muting
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If you want to keep a stream on your sidebar but don't want to keep receiving
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notifications from it, you can mute the stream.
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To learn more about muting a stream, see [here](/help/mute-a-stream).
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When pinning, searching and muting are combined, you will end up with a well
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ordered **Streams** list. All your most important streams will be pinned at
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the top. All the streams which you search for occasionally will be in the
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middle. All the inactive streams will be at the bottom of your list. Muted
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streams will still be in the list but they will be grayed out and you won't
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receive notifications from them.
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