# Version 13 Insomnia: how do I hide projects and collections from the left query tree?

**URL:** <https://discuss.konghq.com/t/version-13-insomnia-how-do-i-hide-projects-and-collections-from-the-left-query-tree/14044>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [June 23, 2026, 2:03pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/version-13-insomnia-how-do-i-hide-projects-and-collections-from-the-left-query-tree/14044 "2026-06-23T14:03:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![baxsmaxbax](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.konghq.com/baxsmaxbax/32/5207_2.png) [@baxsmaxbax](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/baxsmaxbax)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2026, 2:03pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/version-13-insomnia-how-do-i-hide-projects-and-collections-from-the-left-query-tree/14044/1 "2026-06-23T14:03:59Z")

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Because of this new feature, the workspace has become heavily overloaded with absolutely unnecessary information.

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**Author:** ![Cameron\_HayGlass](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.konghq.com/cameron_hayglass/32/5190_2.png) [@Cameron\_HayGlass](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/Cameron_HayGlass)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2026, 2:47pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/version-13-insomnia-how-do-i-hide-projects-and-collections-from-the-left-query-tree/14044/2 "2026-06-24T14:47:28Z")

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Hey! I’m Cam, the Insomnia PM - sorry to hear about your experience with the new navigation in Insomnia 13.

Can you explain to me what your typical workflow looks like? Are you usually in just a couple of collections and thats why having everything feels like too much? or?

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**Author:** ![baxsmaxbax](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.konghq.com/baxsmaxbax/32/5207_2.png) [@baxsmaxbax](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/baxsmaxbax)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2026, 9:20pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/version-13-insomnia-how-do-i-hide-projects-and-collections-from-the-left-query-tree/14044/3 "2026-06-26T21:20:49Z")

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I use Collection like “Project”. There are 15 collections in my Insomnia. And I usually only work on one project during the day at a time.  
For a tree structure with nesting inside the project, I use folders.

After this update, it turns out that I have 14 extra nodes in the long left tree, which eat up the vertical space.

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**Author:** ![baxsmaxbax](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.konghq.com/baxsmaxbax/32/5207_2.png) [@baxsmaxbax](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/baxsmaxbax)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 8:14am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/version-13-insomnia-how-do-i-hide-projects-and-collections-from-the-left-query-tree/14044/4 "2026-07-15T08:14:03Z")

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And I can’t find place with env-variables now ☹  
I mean: {{ \_.base\_url }}, etc.

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**Author:** ![Alex\_Buturlakin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.konghq.com/alex_buturlakin/32/5221_2.png) [@Alex\_Buturlakin](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/Alex_Buturlakin)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2026, 6:11pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/version-13-insomnia-how-do-i-hide-projects-and-collections-from-the-left-query-tree/14044/5 "2026-07-16T18:11:09Z")

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yeah, that doesn’t work for me either, because I use env variables.. But it would be really great to have an option in settings to use the old UI (including no tabs!!!). Developers are a pretty conservative bunch; it would be good to have fewer changes to the UI and more to the additional features. I’m going to downgrade to the prev version