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title: Projects
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category: Projects
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tags: projects, series, novels, organisation, setup
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contextKey: projects.overview
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micro: Choose and organise the writing projects you are actively developing.
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quickTitle: What are Projects?
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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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screenshot:
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# Overview
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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.
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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.
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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.
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# When Should I Use This?
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Use this page when you are starting a new novel or series, returning to an existing project, or deciding which project needs attention today.
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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.
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# How To Use It
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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.
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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.
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# Example
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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.
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# Writer Tip
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Name projects for recognition, not perfection. A clear working title is more useful than waiting for the final published title.
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# Common Mistakes
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- Splitting related books into separate projects too early.
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- Keeping old abandoned tests active instead of archiving them.
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- Using vague titles that make several projects hard to tell apart.
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- Treating the project list as a dumping ground rather than an active writing shelf.
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# Related Guides
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- [Project Settings](/Help/Article/projectSettings.overview)
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- [Books](/Help/Article/books.overview)
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- [Characters](/Help/Article/characters.overview)
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- [Imports](/Help/Article/imports.overview)
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