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That's a good point. I feel like I could fit all the content in one area just fine without a sidebar, but I always run into the my text areas being to wide to be easily readable and can only think of a sidebar to fill the extra space. I will upload some screenshots in the next couple days to help illustrate. Thanks for your thoughts so far!