Customize Menu

The Customize menu controls how GuideVault presents the Home page and sidebar shortcuts. It is where you decide what shelves appear, what they mean, and how quickly you can jump into common library views.

The Home tab controls which shelves appear on the main Home page.

Home shelves

Home shelves are horizontal sections that appear above or alongside the main library grid. They are useful for surfacing content without forcing you to search every time.

A Home shelf can show recently added content, recently viewed content, or other curated groups.

Shelf preset definitions

Recently Added

Shows newly scanned or newly indexed content across the library. This is useful after adding a batch of manuals, magazines, or guides.

Recently Viewed

Shows content you have opened recently. This is useful for returning to a manual, guide, or magazine without searching again.

Favorites

Shows items marked as favorites. Use this for documents you return to often.

Manuals

Shows manual-type content. This shelf is useful when you want quick access to instruction booklets and reference materials.

Strategy Guides

Shows strategy guide content such as walkthroughs, maps, official guides, unofficial guides, and complete solutions.

Magazines

Shows magazine content, previews, reviews, retro publications, and issue-based gaming journals.

Saved or custom groups

Shows curated views such as a series, publisher, platform, magazine run, or search-based collection when configured through navigation shortcuts.

Home Library

The broader home view. This is the general landing area for browsing all indexed content.

Add Shelf

Use Add Shelf to add another shelf preset to Home. This is best used for high-value shelves that make the landing page more useful, not for every possible category.

Remove

Use Remove to take a shelf off the Home page. Removing a shelf does not delete the actual documents. It only removes that shelf from the Home layout.

Reordering shelves

The drag handle beside a shelf is used to arrange shelf order. Put the shelves you use most often at the top.

Home tab vs Side Nav tab

The Customize menu has two major ideas:

• Home controls what shelves appear on the main Home page.
• Side Nav controls pinned sidebar shortcuts and custom collection-style navigation.

Use Home shelves for broad browsing. Use Side Nav shortcuts for targeted collections, series, publishers, or saved searches.