accessing left nav items

[arw]

Is it possible to access the items in the left navigation pane through a zimlet?
For example I would like to access the various list items/buttons such as 'inbox', 'sent', etc.
Using their IDs is obviously not ideal because of the generated/app-like nature of the web-client.
Is it possible to easily access these through the javascript api? Primarily I am interested in attaching additional events to them for custom functionality.
Thanks!

[jerryboi]

Chk this > ttps://github.com/Flamenco/tab_overview_sample_zimlet