Projects

Organize songs into projects with cover art, tracklists, and collaborators.

Projects are how you organize songs in Nitesong. Think of them as albums, EPs, demo collections, or any grouping that makes sense for your workflow. Each project holds a set of songs in a specific track order, and gives you a bird's-eye view of your progress through the kanban board.

Personal Project

Every Nitesong account comes with a Personal project. It's created automatically the first time you visit the Songs page — no setup required.

• Your Personal project always appears as the first tab in the project bar.
• Any songs you created before projects existed are automatically migrated into it, preserving their original creation order as the track list.
• You cannot delete or archive the Personal project. It's your permanent home base.
• If you delete another project, its songs are moved back into your Personal project so nothing is ever lost.

The Personal project works exactly like any other project — it has a sidebar, a tracklist, cover art, and notes. The only difference is that it can't be removed.

Creating Projects

To create a new project, click the "+" button at the end of your project tabs.

A dialog appears with the following fields:

• Name (required) — Give your project a title. This appears on the tab and in the sidebar.
• Description (optional) — A short summary. Shown in the project sidebar beneath the cover art.
• Cover art (optional) — Upload an image (up to 5 MB) to use as the project's visual identity. The image is stored securely in the cloud and displayed in the sidebar. You can change it any time by clicking the cover art area.
• Year (optional) — A release year for reference.
• Release date (optional) — A more specific date if you need it.
• Notes (optional) — Freeform text for liner notes, session plans, to-dos, or anything else. Notes auto-save as you type.

Plan Limits

Free users always have access to their Personal project. Upgrading to Pro or Cloud unlocks the ability to create additional projects.

Project Sidebar

When you select a project, a sidebar appears on the right side of the screen. On desktop it's a fixed panel; on mobile it opens as a slide-out sheet (tap the vinyl disc icon in the bottom-right corner).

The sidebar contains:

Cover Art

The top of the sidebar shows the project's cover art. If you're the project owner, click the image (or the placeholder) to upload or replace it. Accepted formats include JPEG, PNG, and WebP, up to 5 MB.

Album Info

Below the cover art you'll see the project name, release year (derived from the release date or the year field), and description.

Members

If the project has collaborators, they appear in a Members section with display names or email addresses.

Track List

The heart of the sidebar is the track list — an ordered list of every song in the project.

• Reorder songs by dragging the grip handle (the six-dot icon on the left of each track). Drop it where you want, and the new order is saved automatically.
• Song status is shown as a small colored dot next to each track:
  • Gray dot — Idea
  • Yellow/amber dot — In Progress
  • Green dot — Finished
• Navigate to any song by clicking its title.
• Tracks are numbered sequentially based on their current order.

Project Notes

At the bottom of the sidebar is a Project Notes text area. Type anything here — mixing notes, release checklists, creative direction. Changes auto-save after a short pause (about one second of inactivity). Only the project owner can edit notes.

Archiving & Deleting Projects

Archiving

If you're done with a project but aren't ready to delete it, you can archive it.

1. Select the project tab so it's active.
2. Click the "..." menu on the tab.
3. Choose Archive.

Archived projects are hidden from your tabs. To see them, open the Archived projects dialog (accessible from the project tab bar). From there you can:

• Restore a project to bring it back to your active tabs.
• Delete a project permanently (with a confirmation step).

Each archived project shows the number of songs it contains, so you know what you're working with before restoring or deleting.

Deleting

Deleting a project is permanent. When you delete a project:

• The project itself is removed.
• Songs are not deleted. They are automatically moved to your Personal project so you never lose work.

You can delete a project from the tab's "..." menu or from the Archived projects dialog.

Restrictions

• The Personal project cannot be archived or deleted. The options are hidden from its menu.

Moving Songs Between Projects

You can move a song from one project to another using the Move to project dialog.

How to move a song

1. On the kanban board, open the context menu or actions menu for the song you want to move.
2. Select Move to project.
3. A dialog lists all your other projects (with song counts). Click the one you want.
4. The song is moved to the end of the target project's track list.

Collaborator handling

When you move a song into a project that has collaborators, Nitesong checks whether those members already have access to the song:

• If the song has no collaborators and the target project has members, you'll be asked to confirm that all project members will be added as collaborators on the song.
• If the song has collaborators but some project members are missing from the song, you'll be prompted to add the missing members.
• If there's no mismatch, the move happens immediately with no extra confirmation.

This ensures that project members always have access to every song in their project.

Only the song owner can move a song between projects.

Project Collaborators

Projects support collaboration. When you invite someone to a project, they get access to all songs within that project.

Roles

Inviting collaborators

1. Open the project settings or edit dialog.
2. Enter the collaborator's email address.
3. They must already have a Nitesong account. If no account matches the email, you'll see an error.
4. Invited members are added as editors by default.

When a collaborator is added to a project, they are also automatically added as a collaborator on every existing song in that project. This keeps permissions in sync — no need to invite someone to each song individually.

Removing collaborators

When you remove a collaborator from a project:

• They lose access to the project.
• They are also removed from all songs within that project.

This cascading removal ensures clean permission boundaries. Only the project owner can invite or remove collaborators.

Tips

• Use the Personal project as a scratchpad. Throw quick ideas in there, then move them to a proper project once they take shape.
• Drag tabs to reorder projects. Your project tabs can be rearranged by dragging, and the order is saved.
• Track order is your setlist. Drag songs in the sidebar to arrange them the way you'd sequence an album or EP.
• Archive instead of deleting. If you're unsure, archive first. You can always restore later or delete from the archive dialog.