How to retain folders from External drive on the sidebar?

I dragged some folders from my external hard drive that I regularly use when I am in the office.
Sometimes I take my MBP out without the external drives. I realize that these aliases I had created on the sidebar disappears.
When I connect up to my external drive again, I have to drag these same folders again into the sidebar.
Is there a way I can keep these external folders on the sidebar, without creating a real alias on my hard drive and copying that onto the sidebar?
Thanks!

Oh well. It would have been nice to have the sidebar folders greyed out instead until you plug the drives back in...

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