Navigation Files
Take a look to the left. There you see all of the files that are available in this section. You have one left navigation file per folder (see also: how to make a new left navigation file).
Once you create all of your pages, then you can link to all of those pages on your navigation file. Files have to be published in order go be seen in the link browser.
Every page in that directory shares the one navigation file. If you make changes to the navigation file, it is auotmatically populated to all of the pages in that directory that are sharing that file.
You do not need to use a left navigation file or left sidebar on your pages. You can create landing pages with featureblocks that direct to your other pages and use breadcrumbs (see breadrumbs at the top of this page) to allow users to navigate back.
TIP: On the page properties, under Basic Page Config section, The left sidebar must be set to show, and vertical navigation options to left sidebar (the latter is set that way by default).