Install enough add-ons and Blender's N-Panel overflows into an endless strip of tabs you scroll and hunt through. Simple N Panel puts one heart button at the top of the viewport — click it for a tidy menu of every tab, and jump straight to the one you want.
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Run more than a handful of add-ons and the N-Panel tab strip overflows — slow to scan, easy to lose. Simple N Panel replaces the endless scrolling with a single menu.
Click the heart button at the top of the Blender viewport and a clean pop-up lists every N-Panel tab you have installed. Pick one and the sidebar opens — if hidden — and jumps straight to it. Prefer the keyboard? Shift + ` opens the very same menu.
Drag your most-used add-ons to the top and give any tab your own name. Display names are aliases only, so renaming never breaks navigation — the real category is always used under the hood.
Export your whole configuration to JSON and import it on another machine. Set the sidebar up once and take it everywhere, or share it with a team.
Your tab order, custom names, and visibility live in user preferences and travel as a single JSON file. Purpose-built for the tab overflow that grows worse the more add-ons you install.
Refresh scans for newly installed add-ons and folds their tabs in without wiping your customizations. No external dependencies, no network access, no scene data — just a quieter sidebar.
A single hotkey replaces the overflowing tab strip. Simple N Panel is free, local, and built for the way Blender artists already work.