Featured Projects

The Featured Projects widget sits at the top of your dashboard and highlights the projects you are currently working on the most. It gives you a fast way to jump into active work without scrolling through your full project list.

How it works

The widget shows your 4 most active projects (buckets). Activity is determined by recent changes — things like new tracks being added, stage changes, comments, metadata edits, and collaborator updates. The more action a project has seen recently, the more likely it is to appear here.

You do not need to pin or favourite anything. The widget automatically surfaces whatever you have been working on.

What you see for each project

Each featured project card shows:

Element	What it means
Project name	The name of the bucket
Project colour	The colour you assigned when creating the project
Activity badge	A count of recent changes within the project
Track count	How many songs are in the project

The activity badge is the most useful piece at a glance. A high number means a lot has been happening — new imports, stage changes, comments. A low number or no badge means the project has been relatively quiet.

Clicking a featured project

Click any featured project card to jump directly to the tracks page, filtered to show only that project’s tracks. This saves you the step of navigating to the tracks page and then selecting the project from the sidebar.

It is the fastest way to go from “what should I work on?” to actually working on it.

How projects are ranked

The ranking is based on recency and volume of activity:

Most recent activity wins — a project you edited 5 minutes ago outranks one you edited yesterday.
Volume matters — a project with 10 changes today outranks one with 2 changes today.
All activity types count — imports, edits, comments, stage changes, and collaborator updates all contribute.

The ranking recalculates in real time. If you just finished a big session in one project, it will appear at the top. If you shift focus to a different project, the cards rearrange to reflect that.

What counts as activity

The following actions on a project’s tracks count toward its activity score:

Importing new tracks
Changing a track’s workflow stage
Adding or editing comments
Updating metadata (BPM, key, tags, etc.)
Adding or removing collaborators
Changing due dates
Moving tracks between projects

Passive actions like viewing a track or playing audio do not count. The widget is focused on productive changes, not browsing.

When projects rotate out

If a project goes quiet for a while, it naturally falls off the featured list and is replaced by whatever you are actively working on. There is no fixed time window — it depends on how active your other projects are.

A project that was featured yesterday might not appear today if you spent the day working on something else entirely. This is by design. The widget always reflects your current focus, not your past focus.

Projects with no recent activity

If you have fewer than 4 projects with recent activity, the widget shows whatever is available. If you are brand new to Producer Dashboard and have not created any projects yet, the widget displays a prompt to create your first project.

Tips

Use featured projects as your daily starting point. The projects showing up here are the ones that need your attention right now.
If a project you expected to see is missing, it might mean you have not worked on it recently. Check the full project list in the sidebar.
Activity badges reset over time, so a fresh badge means genuinely recent work.
Create a habit of checking featured projects first thing. It is faster than mentally recalling where you left off.

Dashboard Overview — the full dashboard layout and all widgets
Creating Projects — set up new projects and buckets
Project Hierarchy — understand how projects, sub-projects, and tracks relate
The Tracks Grid — where you end up after clicking a featured project