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I just turned off the sidebar, as it's completely useless waste of memory and screen real estate.
The sidebar is genuinely useful to me for only one thing. There is a "Live Search Maps" plugin that remembers the map location and zoom level across reboots, and will overlay traffic commute data. So I can have it zoomed in to the critical areas of my 520 commute during the day, and I can keep an eye on it as the afternoon progresses, and get an idea about which route I will be taking home.
Of course, the only reason I need this is because I'm working at Microsoft. Go figure. 
It's also nice (but not hugely useful) having the calendar gadget up so I can glance over and see the date instantly (since the date doesn't appear on the taskbar clock without a time-consuming hover).
As far as screen real estate, I'm doing dual monitors so it works really well to have it on my secondary monitor.
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