diff --git a/web/components/nav/sidebar.tsx b/web/components/nav/sidebar.tsx
index cc735227..fd70541a 100644
--- a/web/components/nav/sidebar.tsx
+++ b/web/components/nav/sidebar.tsx
@@ -5,8 +5,11 @@ import {
   BookOpenIcon,
 } from '@heroicons/react/outline'
 import clsx from 'clsx'
+import _ from 'lodash'
 import Link from 'next/link'
 import { useRouter } from 'next/router'
+import { useFollowedFolds } from '../../hooks/use-fold'
+import { useUser } from '../../hooks/use-user'
 
 const navigation = [
   { name: 'Home', href: '/home', icon: HomeIcon },
@@ -65,6 +68,10 @@ export default function Sidebar() {
   const router = useRouter()
   const currentPage = router.pathname
 
+  const user = useUser()
+  let folds = useFollowedFolds(user) || []
+  folds = _.sortBy(folds, 'followCount').reverse()
+
   return (
     <nav aria-label="Sidebar" className="sticky top-4 divide-y divide-gray-300">
       <div className="space-y-1 pb-8">
@@ -79,13 +86,13 @@ export default function Sidebar() {
         />
 
         <div className="mt-3 space-y-2">
-          {communities.map((community) => (
+          {folds.map((fold) => (
             <a
-              key={community.name}
-              href={community.href}
+              key={fold.name}
+              href={`/fold/${fold.slug}`}
               className="group flex items-center rounded-md px-3 py-2 text-sm font-medium text-gray-600 hover:bg-gray-50 hover:text-gray-900"
             >
-              <span className="truncate">&nbsp; {community.name}</span>
+              <span className="truncate">&nbsp; {fold.name}</span>
             </a>
           ))}
         </div>
diff --git a/web/hooks/use-fold.ts b/web/hooks/use-fold.ts
index 4b1a56a2..ffb19615 100644
--- a/web/hooks/use-fold.ts
+++ b/web/hooks/use-fold.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
+import _ from 'lodash'
 import { useEffect, useState } from 'react'
 import { Fold } from '../../common/fold'
 import { User } from '../../common/user'
 import {
+  listAllFolds,
   listenForFold,
   listenForFolds,
   listenForFoldsWithTags,
@@ -49,7 +51,7 @@ export const useFollowingFold = (fold: Fold, user: User | null | undefined) => {
   return following
 }
 
-// Note: We cache FollowedFolds in localstorage to speed up the initial load
+// Note: We cache followedFoldIds in localstorage to speed up the initial load
 export const useFollowedFoldIds = (user: User | null | undefined) => {
   const [followedFoldIds, setFollowedFoldIds] = useState<string[] | undefined>(
     undefined
@@ -72,3 +74,38 @@ export const useFollowedFoldIds = (user: User | null | undefined) => {
 
   return followedFoldIds
 }
+
+// We also cache followedFolds directly in JSON.
+// TODO: Extract out localStorage caches to a utility
+export const useFollowedFolds = (user: User | null | undefined) => {
+  const [followedFolds, setFollowedFolds] = useState<Fold[] | undefined>()
+  const ids = useFollowedFoldIds(user)
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (user && ids) {
+      const key = `followed-full-folds-${user.id}`
+      const followedFoldJson = localStorage.getItem(key)
+      if (followedFoldJson) {
+        setFollowedFolds(JSON.parse(followedFoldJson))
+        // Exit early if ids and followedFoldIds have all the same elements.
+        if (
+          _.isEqual(
+            _.sortBy(ids),
+            _.sortBy(JSON.parse(followedFoldJson).map((f: Fold) => f.id))
+          )
+        ) {
+          return
+        }
+      }
+
+      // Otherwise, fetch the full contents of all folds
+      listAllFolds().then((folds) => {
+        const followedFolds = folds.filter((fold) => ids.includes(fold.id))
+        setFollowedFolds(followedFolds)
+        localStorage.setItem(key, JSON.stringify(followedFolds))
+      })
+    }
+  }, [user, ids])
+
+  return followedFolds
+}