diff --git a/src/layout/Shell.jsx b/src/layout/Shell.jsx
index 9e1fb8b..ff0afc5 100644
--- a/src/layout/Shell.jsx
+++ b/src/layout/Shell.jsx
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-import { useEffect, useState } from 'react'
-import { NavLink, Outlet, useLocation } from 'react-router-dom'
+import { useState } from 'react'
+import { NavLink, Outlet } from 'react-router-dom'
 import { NAV_GROUPS, STAGES } from '../api/config.js'
 import { rolesOf, visibleStages } from '../api/permissions.js'
 import { useStageCounts } from '../api/portfolio.jsx'
@@ -35,8 +35,10 @@ export default function Shell() {
   // because a menu that stays open over the page you just chose is a menu you
   // have to dismiss twice. Desktop never reads this — the rail is always there.
   const [navOpen, setNavOpen] = useState(false)
-  const { pathname } = useLocation()
-  useEffect(() => { setNavOpen(false) }, [pathname])
+  // Closing on the link rather than on the route: a menu that stays open over
+  // the page you just chose is a menu you have to dismiss twice. Keyed off the
+  // anchor so opening the Closed fold — which is not navigation — leaves it up.
+  const closeIfLink = (e) => { if (e.target.closest('a')) setNavOpen(false) }
 
   const count = (s) => counts[s.uid] || { total: 0, waiting: 0, working: 0, urgent: 0 }
 
@@ -92,7 +94,7 @@ export default function Shell() {
         {/* The scrim only exists while the drawer is open, and only on a phone:
             tapping the page you can see should put the menu away. */}
         {navOpen ? <button type="button" className="shell__scrim" aria-label="Close the menu" onClick={() => setNavOpen(false)} /> : null}
-        <nav className={'shell__nav' + (navOpen ? ' is-open' : '')} aria-label="Pipeline">
+        <nav className={'shell__nav' + (navOpen ? ' is-open' : '')} aria-label="Pipeline" onClick={closeIfLink}>
           <NavLink to="/" end className={({ isActive }) => 'nav__link' + (isActive ? ' is-on' : '')}>
             <span className="nav__name">Overview</span>
           </NavLink>