Projects Screen Overview

The Projects screen is where Atarim opens. Everything you work on lives here as a project — a website, a set of designs, or a page you are collecting feedback on — and every other part of the product is reached by opening one.

You may see this called the Websites screen in older material. They are the same screen — projects is the current term, and it covers more than websites. A project can be a live site connected through the WordPress plugin, a site added by URL, a site connected with a script, or a set of designs and images.

What you can add here

Select Add new, the first card on the Projects screen, or choose Add new from the ⋮ menu at the top right. A panel opens asking What do you want to add? Hover an option to see what it is for. Which options you see depends on your role. The Connect via MCP button at the top of the screen opens the same panel on Connect an AI client.

Each option opens its own panel. Drop a URL is the quickest: enter an address and the project is created in seconds. To connect an existing website project with a script instead, open its card’s ⋮ menu and select Connect the website.

Each method has its own requirements and setup steps. Learn More About Creating Your First Project.

What a project card shows

Each project appears as a card carrying several pieces of information at a glance.

Hover a card to show its buttons. The ⋮ menu on the card also has Manage tasks, which opens the project in your Inbox, and View on Kanban, which opens it on Boards.

The Artifacts card on the grid isn’t a project. It collects the reports and audits Atarim generates for you, and it doesn’t use a project slot. Learn More About Artifacts.

Choosing the right action

Open, Manage tasks and View on Kanban show the same tasks in different shapes, which is the part that confuses people first time.

The Project Actions menu

Alongside the hover buttons, each card carries a ⋮ menu headed Project Actions. This is where project-level management lives, as opposed to the day-to-day work. What appears depends on your permissions, so two people may see different options on the same project.

Archived projects

Archiving does not delete anything — it moves a project out of the main view, frees its slot, and keeps its tasks and history intact. Everything you have archived is reached from this screen via Projects Settings → Archived Projects, and can be brought back from there.

Archiving, restoring, and what happens to a project’s tasks in the meantime are covered separately. Discover How Archiving Keeps Your Work Safe.

Finding a project

Searching

Search is the quickest way to reach a project you can name. It is a button rather than a text box: selecting it (or pressing Ctrl + K) opens a search dialog that matches projects, tasks and URLs as you type.

Instructions:

1. Select Search at the top of the screen, or press Ctrl + K. Type into the dialog that opens. To narrow the Projects screen itself rather than jumping straight to a result, pick the row carrying your search term once matching projects appear. If you do not see a Search control at all, your role does not have access to it.
2. If results look wrong, select Clear search filters. This resets the search and every filter at once — a filter left on is the usual cause of a “missing” project.

Filtering by type

Filtering narrows the screen to one kind of project. It is most useful when you work across websites and designs at once and only want to see one of them.

Instructions:

1. Open the Filter Projects menu.
2. Switch on the types you want to see. Filters combine, so leaving all three off shows everything.

Sorting

Sorting changes the order projects appear in, which matters most once you have more than a screenful. Where search answers “which project”, sorting answers “which project needs me first”.

Instructions:

1. Open the same menu and find Sort Projects.
2. Choose an order. If the option opens an upgrade panel instead of applying, sorting is not included on your plan.

Combining search, filters, and sort

All three apply at once, which is what makes them useful and also what makes projects seem to disappear.

Working with several projects at once

Most of the screen works project by project, but two shortcuts let you handle several together. Both are easy to miss because neither is a visible button until you start.

Selecting multiple projects

Selection lets you act on a group of projects in one go — archiving a finished client’s five sites, for example, rather than opening each card in turn.

Instructions:

1. Hover over a project card. A checkbox appears in its corner. It is hidden until you hover, which is why the feature is easy to miss.
2. Select the checkbox. The project is selected, and checkboxes now stay visible on every other card so you can carry on picking.
3. Select the other projects you want to include.
4. Apply your action to the whole selection. Archiving several at once confirms with the number handled, such as “5 projects successfully archived”.

Creating a folder by dragging

The quickest way to start grouping projects is to drag one onto another. It saves opening the folder panel and picking projects from a list.

Instructions:

1. Drag one project card on top of another. A Create a Folder preview shows both projects.
2. Drop it. The Create a New Folder form opens with both projects already added. Name the folder, add team members if you want, then select Create Folder.
3. Drag further projects onto the folder to add them.

Folders

Create one from Projects Settings → Add Folder. To file an existing project, drag its card onto the folder, or choose the folder under Add this project to a folder in its project settings.

Creating folders, assigning projects and team members to them, and managing them over time are covered separately. Explore Adding And Managing Folders.

The Projects Settings menu

Grid view is easier to scan by screenshot, which suits a handful of visually distinct sites. List view fits far more on screen once you are managing dozens, and shows more detail per project.

Which view suits which way of working is covered separately. Find Out Which View Suits You Best.

Project limits

Your plan sets how many active projects you can have. Archived projects don’t count. When you reach the limit you can’t add another. If you are over it, for example after a plan change, the extra projects show Project Locked with an Upgrade Now button. Selecting it opens You Ran Out of Project Slots, which suggests you either upgrade or remove inactive projects to free up space.

Known limitations

Where the screen stops:

1. The screen shows one workspace at a time. There is no combined view across workspaces.
2. Sorting and some filters are paid features, and show an upgrade prompt on lower plans.
3. Deleting is permanent. Archiving is the reversible option.
4. Projects cannot be moved between workspaces.
5. Available actions depend on your role, so two people may see different buttons on the same project.
6. Project stages are a paid feature and show an upgrade prompt on lower plans.

FAQs

Common issues

• A project is missing. Work through four checks in order: are you in the right workspace, is a search term still applied, is a filter still on (use Clear search filters), and is it in Archived Projects. Only after all four should you suspect deletion.
• No checkbox appears when you hover a card. Selection is not available to Team Members or Collaborators. Ask an administrator about your role.
• A card shows but its actions do not. The project is locked because you are over your plan’s limit. Archive something, or upgrade.
• The screen is empty. Either this workspace has no projects yet, or a filter is hiding them all. Use Clear search filters.
• You cannot add a project. You may have reached your plan’s project limit, or your role may not include adding projects. Archived projects don’t count toward the limit, so archiving finished work frees a slot.
• A sort option opens an upgrade panel. Sorting is not included on your plan.
• An action is missing from a card. Actions are permission-based. Ask an administrator what your role allows.
• A project screenshot looks wrong or outdated. Screenshots are generated when the project is added. Open the project to see it as it is now.
• You deleted a project by mistake. Deletion is permanent and cannot be undone from the dashboard. Contact Support as soon as possible.

Conclusion

The Projects screen is deliberately simple: add the sites you work on, then use the card actions to get into the work. Add one by URL to start, select Open on its card, and leave a comment — that is the whole product in about two minutes.

Once a project is on the screen, the next step is configuring it to suit how you work.