Managing Your Projects
Manage your Dabble projects: organize your dashboard, duplicate, merge, move work between projects, back up, and recover deleted work.
Finish one book, start three more. Duplicate a project to test a bolder draft. Before long your dashboard looks like a desk you keep meaning to clear off.
Good news: it tidies up fast.
Tidy the shelf
Section titled “Tidy the shelf”- Organize your dashboard: group projects into collections, sort them, and fold away the ones you’re not working on.
- Rename a project and Archive a project: keep the finished ones out of your way without deleting a word.
Move things around
Section titled “Move things around”- Duplicate a project: an exact copy to experiment on, so the original stays safe.
- Move work between projects: send a book, chapter, scene, character, or note from one project into another.
- Merge two projects: fold a whole project into another one.
Get it back
Section titled “Get it back”- Recover a deleted scene, chapter, or note: for something you deleted inside a project.
- Recover or permanently delete trashed work: for a whole project you trashed from the dashboard.
- View and restore version history: roll back to an earlier draft, or bring one document forward.
- Back up your work: keep a copy of your own, outside Dabble.
Guides in this topic
- Organize your dashboardOrganize your Dabble dashboard: group projects into collections, drag them into custom order, collapse a collection, and switch the stacked or fanned layout.
- Rename a projectRename a project in Dabble from Project Settings on your Projects dashboard.
- Duplicate a projectDuplicate a project in Dabble to make an exact, independent copy you can revise or experiment on without touching your original.
- Merge two projectsMerge two Dabble projects into one: fold a whole project into another from your dashboard, see exactly what moves over, and undo it if you change your mind.
- Move work between projectsMove or copy a book, chapter, scene, character, or note from one Dabble project into another using Move to Project… or Copy and Paste, including what happens to a book's linked Plot Grid.
- Archive a projectArchive a project in Dabble to move finished or paused work out of your active dashboard into the Archived view without deleting anything.
- Recover a deleted scene, chapter, or noteRecover a deleted scene, chapter, character, or notebook page in Dabble from your project's Trash, restore an archived document, or delete something for good.
- Recover or permanently delete trashed workRecover deleted work in Dabble by restoring a project from Trash, or clear out trashed projects you no longer need from your Projects dashboard.
- View and restore version historyView and restore version history in Dabble: browse, preview, and roll back earlier versions of your project, or bring a single document forward from your writing history.
- Back up your workExport a backup of a single Dabble project or your whole local database, and import a backup file to bring it back, from Preferences under the Advanced tab.