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title: Projects
description: The unit every piece of work hangs off. The list, what a row tells you, and what is inside a project once you open it.
sidebar:
  label: Overview
  icon: layers
---

A project in Ali is one engagement: a client, a scope, a budget, a team and a pile of tasks. Almost everything else in the product points back at one. Tasks live in a project, hours are logged against its budget, documents can be scoped to it, and when Lia says something is at risk, this is the thing she means.

You reach them from **Projects** in the sidebar, which also expands into the projects themselves.

![The projects list, with client, priority, team, target and budget](/images/projects/list.webp)

## What a row tells you

The list is deliberately narrow: six columns, all of them things you would ask about in a status meeting.

| Column | What it holds |
| --- | --- |
| Name | The project, its icon, and a star if you favourited it |
| Client | The account it belongs to, or a dash when it is internal |
| Priority | No priority, Low, Medium, High or Urgent |
| Team | The members who are on it |
| Target | The target date |
| Budget | The contracted value, in the project's currency |

The star on a row toggles the favourite, which marks the project with a star in the sidebar too, so the two or three you actually live in are easy to spot.

## Two layouts

The toggle next to **New project** switches between the list and cards. Same projects, different density: the list is for scanning many, the cards are for a handful you look at all day.

![The same projects as cards](/images/projects/cards.webp)

## Inside a project

Opening a project gives you its header and three tabs.

![The project menu, with edit, favourite and delete](/images/projects/menu.webp)

The header carries the name, the priority, a **Share** button for [guest access](/teams/guests), and a menu with **Edit project**, the favourite toggle and **Delete project**. Deleting asks you to confirm and cannot be undone.

The tabs are:

- **Overview**, which opens the project straight on its tasks.
- **Tasks**, the boards and the four views. See [Boards and views](/projects/boards).
- **Knowledge base**, the files scoped to this project. See [Project knowledge base](/knowledge-base/projects).

## Where to go next

**[Create a project](/projects/create)**

The fields that matter, the budget shapes, and the task key.

**[Boards and views](/projects/boards)**

Boards, columns, statuses, and the kanban, list, timeline and calendar views.

**[Tasks](/tasks)**

What a task holds and how work moves through one.

**[Teams](/teams)**

Who is on the project, and how to let a client see it.