BBEdit - Have the Sidebar closed by default

Currently whenever I open up BBEdit the Sidebar is open by default. The Sidebar is where it shows a list of files that were already open in BBEdit. I could shut it down by going to: View > Hide Sidebar

How can I make sure the Sidebar never opens up by default? I even tried doing in: Preferences > Appearance > Sidebar > Automatically show to Never

Any suggestions?

Goto Menu View/Hide Sidebar

Goto Menu Window/Save Default Text Window

After that, each new window will use this settings.

Preferences -> Application -> Uncheck Open documents into the front window when possible which will prevent the need for the sidebar in the first place, preventing it from opening automatically when you've set it to hidden.

It opens regardless of preferences when you open a second (or third, act) document into an existing editor window.