The Dockli window has three lasting pieces: the Sidebar on the far left, the breadcrumb bar across the top, and the pane area that fills the rest. This article covers each in depth. For a gentle overview first, see A quick tour.
The sidebar
The Sidebar is the persistent left rail. It’s always mounted and keeps its state as you move around, so it never re-fetches when you enter a site.
My Favorites
At the top, My Favorites is a button — click it and a flyout opens to the right, listing everything you’ve starred, grouped by kind. A count pill shows how many you’ve pinned (or a chevron when you have none yet). Full detail in Favorites.
The five tabs
Below Favorites is a strip of five icon tabs that filter the list underneath:
| Tab | Shows |
|---|---|
| Favorites (star) | Your pinned sites and items, grouped into sections. |
| All | Every SharePoint site and Team, merged and sorted alphabetically. |
| SharePoint | SharePoint sites and hub sites only. |
| Teams | The libraries behind your Microsoft Teams. |
| OneDrive | Your personal OneDrive for Business. |
Default tab logic: if you have any Favorites pinned, Dockli lands you on the Favorites tab so your starred workspaces are front and center. If you have none, it opens on All. Once you pick a tab yourself, Dockli respects that choice for the rest of the session. Switching tabs always clears the filter box and snaps pagination back to page 1.
The filter box
The “Filter…” box narrows the current list as you type, matching site names. A small ✕ clears it. Under All, the list stays alphabetically sorted; under the typed tabs it preserves Microsoft’s natural order so it doesn’t reshuffle as you narrow.
Pagination
The list pages itself to fit the available height — Dockli measures the space and shows as many rows as fit, with a page of total footer and previous/next chevrons when there’s more than one page.
Pinning from the sidebar
Hover any site, team, or OneDrive row (or focus it with the keyboard) and a star appears on the right. Click it to pin that whole workspace to Favorites without opening it; click again to unpin. The star fills in when pinned, and the Favorites list updates instantly.
The breadcrumb bar
The top bar is how you move through your files.
Back and Forward
The Back and Forward chevrons walk your navigation history, exactly like a web browser. Back is disabled at the start of history; Forward is disabled at the end.
- Backspace or Alt + Left also goes Back from the file grid.
The Home wordmark
On the far left, the Dockli wordmark is the Home button. Clicking it does a full reset: it collapses Split View, parks focus on the primary pane, and returns you to Home. (In an AI chat, Home also starts a fresh session.) The wordmark hides only on the landing dashboard itself, where the large centered logo is already on screen.
The breadcrumb path
As you drill in, each level appears as a clickable segment — Site › Library › Folder — separated by chevrons. The current (last) segment is bold and inert; click any earlier segment to jump straight back to it.
Collapsing: when a path has more than three segments, Dockli shows only the first and last with a … button between them. Click the … to open a dropdown listing the hidden middle segments so you can hop to any of them.
Split View — the dual-pane commander
Dockli can show two panes side by side so you can browse (and move files between) two locations at once.
Turning it on
Inside any folder, click Split View in the header (its icon is a double column). A second pane opens — seeded as a duplicate of your current pane’s location, so you start with the same folder open on both sides. Focus moves to the new pane so you act in the fresh one. To return to one pane, click the button again; it now reads Single View.
Where the button appears
Split View is a file-browsing tool, so the button is hidden on the landing dashboard (there’s no file context to mirror) and in the Recycle Bin. In split mode the toggle shows once, on the far right, so you can collapse back from either pane.
The resize divider
Between the two panes is a draggable divider labelled “Resize panes.” Drag it (with mouse, touch, or pen) to change the split. Dockli clamps the ratio between 20% and 80% so neither pane can be dragged down to a sliver, and it remembers your last ratio — so reopening Split View restores it instead of snapping back to 50/50.
The active pane
Only one pane is active at a time — the one your next sidebar click or keyboard action lands in. The active pane is highlighted, and the sidebar’s tile highlight follows it so you always know where a fresh navigation would go. Click into a pane, or navigate within it, to make it active. Each pane takes keyboard focus independently.
Dockli always opens on Home
By design, Dockli always opens on Home with a clean, root-only path — it does not restore the last folder you were in. Because Dockli re-mounts each time you open it from File Explorer, “pick up where I left off” recovery was deliberately left out: every session starts fresh at Home, and all your navigation (drilling in, Back/Forward, breadcrumb hops) happens from there.
Where to go next
- Work with the file grid → Browsing and opening
- Move files between panes → Copy and move across sites
- Star your workspaces → Favorites