To keep important channels visible all the time, you can pin them to the top of the sidebar. Click the three-dot icon next to the team and then select “Pin” from the menu.

This will create a new “Pinned” section at the top of the sidebar with the channel you’ve pinned visible below it.

You can pin as many channels as you like. We’re only interested in the “Status Updates” channel in our project teams, so we’ve pinned those channels and dragged and dropped them into alphabetical order based on the project name.

To remove a team from the “Pinned” section, click the three-dot icon next to the channel and then select “Unpin” from the menu.

Pinned channels are visible in the “Pinned” section regardless of whether the team they are in is hidden or not. As we don’t need to see the other channels in our project teams, we can hide each project team and make our list even cleaner.

By way of comparison, remember our sidebar was originally an unordered mess.

But with a few minutes of sorting, hiding, and pinning, we’ve turned it into something much cleaner and easier to use.