Navigation in Plex focuses on letting you quickly access your desired content, when you want it—all using an interface that you’ll find familiar, even across different platforms. You can add, remove, or reorder the sources available on your Navigation Sidebar to help you see all the stuff you care about, and none of the stuff you don’t.

Related Page: Customizing the Apps

Home Screen

Your Home screen is your starting point for Plex, whether it’s finding recently added content or letting you choose a particular type of media to view.

Recommended Content

From the Home screen, you can view recommendations for content to which you have access to.

Some types of content you might see on your Home screen:

• Continue Watching: If you recently left off in the middle of a movie or TV episode, you can quickly resume from where you were.
• On Deck: On Deck shows you television content that you’re watching. If you have a whole season of content and finish episode 3, On Deck will then have episode 4 waiting for you. If you stop watching in the middle of an episode, it will be available for you to pick up right where you left off.
• Recently Added: The Recently Added areas let you see what content was added for different media types and provides quick access to it. You can see recent additions for movies, music, photos, home videos, or television. Television content will even be intelligently stacked for you so that if you add an entire season of content, you’ll just get a single “season” entry displayed rather than a dozen individual episode entries.

Customize the Home Screen

You can use the ... button in the top right corner of the Home screen to reorder the horizontal rows of content displayed on the Home screen. If you’re no longer interested in a row, you can choose to remove it by selecting the ... button for that row and selecting Remove from Home Screen . Similarly, you can add in new rows from any media source you desire.

Related Page: Customizing the Apps

Navigation Sidebar

While the Home screen is often great for an overview of things or quickly getting back to something, sometimes you just want to look at something specific. To do so, you’ll use the navigation sidebar to select the desired source. Access the sidebar from the left edge of the screen, almost anywhere in the app.

You can also customize which sources are visible on the menu and their order using the Edit button near the top of the sidebar – Additional sources can be selected by selecting More followed by Edit.

Related Page: Customizing the Apps

When you choose a particular source to view, you’ll be able to see different types of information, depending on the tab you choose at the bottom of the screen.

• Recommended
• Library
• Collections (if you have any Collections defined for the library)
• Playlists (if you have any playlists created with content from the library)

By default (you can alter this behavior in the app settings), the app will remember which tab you chose for each source. So, you might leave a movie library set to Library, while you like the discovery aspect of Recommended for your music.

Recommended

The Recommended screen is intended to help you quickly access interesting content by displaying several suggestion areas.

Each Recommended screen is crafted for the type of content you are viewing. Be it movies by a particular director, most played music in the month of June, TV shows from a genre, or photos taken this year, these dynamic displays help you find content. A few examples of the types of content suggestions you might see:

• Movies
  • Recently Released Movies
  • Top Movies by Ridley Scott
  • Top Movies in Action
• Television
  • Recently Aired TV
  • Start Watching (Shows that you haven’t begun watching yet)
  • Rediscover (Shows that you started, but haven’t recently watched)
• Music
  • Most played in May
  • More by Journey
  • Top Albums from 1995
  • Artists on Tour

Library (Browse the Media)

Of course, you may wish to simply view the content directly and browse around, which you can easily do by choosing the Library tab at the bottom of the screen.

When browsing the media source, you can filter or sort the content as desired. For instance, you could filter by the genre “Drama” or sort by “Release Date”.

Similarly, you can change what you’re viewing (e.g. Artists, Albums, Tracks, or Folder).

Collections

If you have Collections created for a library, you’ll be able to switch to a view where you can browse all of the Collections directly.

Playlists

In cases where you’ve created a playlist that includes content from the library in question, the Playlists option will be available. There, you can access any playlists with content from the library.