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    The Projects dashboard

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    Open Dabble and you land on the dashboard. Think of it as your bookshelf: every project you’re working on, lined up and waiting, with the one you touched last sitting out front.

    This page is the lay of the land: what you’re looking at, and how to get into a project. When you’re ready to tidy the shelf, Organize your dashboard has the how-to.

    Your projects are grouped into collections. Everyone starts with one called My Projects.

    When another writer shares a project with you, it lands in a Shared with Me collection on its own. Your books and your collaborations stay separate without you doing a thing.

    You can add collections of your own, drag projects between them, and change how each one is sorted and displayed. That’s all in Organize your dashboard.

    The Projects dashboard: a My Projects collection of book covers with a Create a Project tile, the Add a Collection button up top, and a sidebar welcome card showing project and word counts.

    Each project is a tile: a stack of its book covers, the title, and when you last changed it (“Modified …”).

    • Click the tile to open the project.
    • Click the … (ellipsis) beside the date for that project’s actions. There’s no right-click menu; the … is the single door in.

    The per-project tasks each have their own guide: Duplicate a project, Rename a project, Archive a project, and Recover deleted work.

    A project tile's ellipsis (…) menu open, showing Edit, Duplicate, Merge Project With…, Import Book, Convert to Template, Archive, and Send to Trash.

    A view switcher at the top of the dashboard filters your projects by state:

    • Active: your everyday projects.
    • Templates: projects you’ve turned into reusable starting points.
    • Archived: projects you’ve set aside. This view appears once you’ve archived something.
    • Trashed: projects on their way out, still recoverable. This view appears once something’s in it.