I found indenting the page links under Favorites and Recents to be more pleasant for viewing as well as easier to spot visually in the sidebar.
The CSS for indenting is easy to add:
/* Favorites and Recent
Indent them and also compress the space between them. */
.nav-contents-container {
padding-top: 0px !important;
}
.favorites .header,
.recent .header {
padding-top: 0px !important;
margin-top: 0px !important;
padding-bottom: 0px !important;
margin-bottom: 0px !important;
}
.favorites .bd,
.recent .bd {
margin-left: 25px;
}
.favorite-item a,
.recent-item a {
padding-top: 4px !important;
padding-bottom: 0px !important;
}
/* Create button */
button#create-button {
width: 30px !important;
}
button#create-button .mx-1 {
display: none !important;
}
You may also want to see my previous post Compressing icons in left sidebar to get back more space for consolidating feature buttons into one row.