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title: Project Dashboard
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category: Projects
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tags: project, dashboard, series, navigation, planning
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contextKey: projectDashboard.overview
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micro: Open the main planning areas for a project from one place.
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quickTitle: What is the Project Dashboard?
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quickSummary: The Project Dashboard gathers the main routes into a project, including books, timeline, story bible, warnings, backups and planning tools.
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screenshot:
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# Overview
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The Project Dashboard is the main launch point for a single project. It shows the project name, description, books, and the tools connected to that project.
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This page is not meant to replace the Timeline. The Timeline is where scene-level planning happens. The Project Dashboard is more like the project table of contents: it helps you move to the right workspace quickly and keeps high-level project actions in one place.
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From here you can open books, create a new book, reach the Story Bible, manage scene metrics, download a backup, create restore points, review warnings, or move into the Writer Workspace.
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# When Should I Use This?
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Use the dashboard when you are orienting yourself at project level. It is useful at the start of a writing session, when you need to decide whether to work on structure, continuity, characters, assets, warnings or backups.
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It is also the best place to confirm whether the project has the right books in the right order before going deeper.
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# How To Use It
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Use the buttons at the top to move to the project area you need. Use the Books section to open book details or add the next book in the sequence.
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Download Project Backup when you want a local copy of the project. Use Restore Points when you want a database-saved safety snapshot before major changes.
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# Example
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Before revising book two, you might open the dashboard, check that both books are present, create a restore point, then move to Warnings or the Timeline depending on the work planned for the day.
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# Writer Tip
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If you feel lost, come back to the dashboard. It gives you a calmer project-level view before you dive back into scenes and details.
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# Common Mistakes
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- Treating the dashboard as the place to do detailed scene work.
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- Forgetting to create backups before major restructuring.
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- Ignoring the book list when the project has grown into a series.
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- Jumping into warnings or analytics before the basic hierarchy is in order.
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# Related Guides
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- [Projects](/Help/Article/projects.overview)
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- [Books](/Help/Article/books.overview)
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- [Story Bible](/Help/Article/storyBible.overview)
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- [Restore Points](/Help/Article/restorePoints.overview)
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