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title: Projects
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contextKey: projects.overview
micro: Choose and organise the writing projects you are actively developing.
quickTitle: What are Projects?
quickSummary: Projects are the main containers for novels, series and story worlds. Use them to keep books, characters, locations and continuity together.
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# Overview

The Projects page is the front door to your writing work. Each project is a container for a novel, a series, or a shared story world. Inside a project you can build books, chapters, scenes, characters, locations, story assets, plot threads, warnings, restore points and exports.

Think of a project as the boundary around a continuity problem. If two books share characters, unresolved questions, locations or timeline consequences, they usually belong in the same project. If they have no meaningful overlap, a separate project may be cleaner.

This page helps you choose what to work on next without opening the full timeline immediately. It is deliberately simple: open a project, edit its basic details, archive work you are not actively using, or create something new.

# When Should I Use This?

Use this page when you are starting a new novel or series, returning to an existing project, or deciding which project needs attention today.

It is also useful when you want to keep dormant ideas out of the way. Archiving a project hides it from normal lists while keeping the data recoverable.

# How To Use It

Open a project to reach its dashboard and connected tools. Use Edit when the title or description needs updating. Use New Project when you are beginning a distinct story container.

If an idea has become a series, you do not need a new project for each book. Add books inside the same project so continuity can be tracked across the whole arc.

# Example

You might have one project called "The Glass Meridian" containing two books, recurring characters, a shared mystery and a set of locations. A separate unrelated romance draft would normally be another project.

# Writer Tip

Name projects for recognition, not perfection. A clear working title is more useful than waiting for the final published title.

# Common Mistakes

- Splitting related books into separate projects too early.
- Keeping old abandoned tests active instead of archiving them.
- Using vague titles that make several projects hard to tell apart.
- Treating the project list as a dumping ground rather than an active writing shelf.

# Related Guides

- [Project Settings](/Help/Article/projectSettings.overview)
- [Books](/Help/Article/books.overview)
- [Characters](/Help/Article/characters.overview)
- [Imports](/Help/Article/imports.overview)
