Project Hierarchy

As your catalogue grows, a flat list of projects can get unwieldy. Producer Dashboard lets you nest projects inside other projects, creating a hierarchy that mirrors how you actually think about your music.

Parent and Child Projects

Any project can become a parent by having other projects nested inside it. The relationship is straightforward:

• A parent project is a high-level container (like “2026 Releases” or “Client Work”)
• A child project sits inside a parent (like “Summer EP” nested under “2026 Releases”)

You can go multiple levels deep if you need to, though one or two levels of nesting is usually enough to stay organised without overcomplicating things.

How to Nest Projects

Nesting is done entirely with drag-and-drop in the sidebar:

1. Find the project you want to nest in the sidebar
2. Click and hold on it
3. Drag it onto the project you want it to live inside
4. Drop it when you see the visual indicator showing it will become a child
5. The project indents under its new parent

The parent project shows a disclosure arrow so you can expand and collapse its children.

Reordering Projects

You can also drag projects up and down in the sidebar to change their order — without nesting them. This is useful when you want your most active projects at the top.

1. Click and hold the project name
2. Drag it to the position you want
3. A horizontal line indicator shows where it will land
4. Release to drop it in place

Reordering works at every level. You can reorder top-level projects, and you can reorder children within a parent.

Real-World Examples

Here are some ways producers use project hierarchy:

By Release Timeline

2026 Releases
  ├── Summer EP
  ├── Autumn Singles
  └── Album (Working Title)
2025 Catalogue
  ├── Debut EP
  └── Remix Pack

By Client

Client Work
  ├── Nike Campaign
  ├── Spotify Editorial
  └── Film Score — Short Film
Personal
  ├── Live Set
  └── Experiments

By Genre or Mood

Electronic
  ├── House Tracks
  ├── Ambient
  └── Techno
Hip-Hop
  ├── Beats for Sale
  └── Collab Instrumentals

By Collaboration

Collabs
  ├── With Kai
  ├── With Samira
  └── Open Sessions
Solo Work
  ├── Album
  └── Singles

Expanding and Collapsing

When a parent project has children, a small arrow appears next to its name. Click it to toggle the children visible or hidden. This keeps your sidebar clean — collapse projects you’re not actively working on and expand the ones you are.

Moving a Child Out

If you want to un-nest a project and bring it back to the top level:

1. Drag the child project out from under its parent
2. Drop it in an empty area of the sidebar or between top-level projects
3. It becomes a standalone project again

What Nesting Does (and Doesn’t) Do

Nesting does:

• Organise your sidebar visually
• Let you collapse groups of projects you’re not focused on
• Give you a mental model for how your music is structured

Nesting does not:

• Change which tracks belong to which project (tracks are assigned to specific projects, not inherited from parents)
• Affect sharing or permissions
• Limit what you can do with child projects — they work exactly like any other project

Each project in the hierarchy is still a fully independent bucket for tracks. Nesting is purely organisational for your sidebar.

Tips

• Don’t over-nest. Two levels deep is usually plenty. If you find yourself going three or four levels, consider whether a flatter structure with better naming would be clearer.
• Use parent projects as “categories” and child projects as the actual working containers where you assign tracks.
• Revisit your hierarchy every few months. As projects wrap up, you might want to reorganise.

Related

• Creating Projects — How to create new projects
• Assigning Songs to Projects — Add tracks to projects at any level
• Multi-Project Selection — Select multiple projects to view combined tracks