The dashboard

The dashboard at /dashboard is Bookbag's home screen. It is where you start a new app and where you find the ones you already have.

/projects redirects here; the two used to be separate screens.

What you see at the top

Ready to build, <your first name>? and, under it, one of two lines:

• Building in <organization> — the normal case.
• Viewing <organization> — you can open projects here but not change them — you are a viewer.

Then the prompt composer, the design picker and five quick-start chips. Those are covered in Creating a project.

The four tabs

Tab	URL	What it lists
Projects	/dashboard	Every project in the current organization, most recently changed first.
Starred	/dashboard?tab=starred	Projects you have starred.
Recently viewed	/dashboard?tab=recent	Projects in the order you last opened them.
Templates	/dashboard?tab=templates	Ten starter prompts.

Archived projects appear in none of them. See Starring, archiving and deleting.

Whose projects you see

Every project in the current organization, not only yours. That is the point of an organization: it is a shared space.

A project someone else created shows their name on its card — a small circle with their initial, and their name before the timestamp. Your own projects show your initial in the accent colour.

What you can do with a teammate's project depends on your role. Owners, admins and members can change any project in the organization. Viewers can open and read any of them but change none. See Roles and permissions.

To see a different organization's projects, switch organization from the bottom of the sidebar.

The project card

Each card is mostly a live thumbnail: the app itself, rendered in a miniature, non-interactive frame. A glance across the dashboard tells you what each project actually looks like, which is more useful than any name.

If the project's sandbox is not running — it was archived, or the server restarted — the thumbnail falls back to a coloured gradient with a sparkle. That is not an error; the project is fine and the next build brings it back.

Under the thumbnail:

• A circle with the owner's initial. Hovering it says Your project or <Name>'s project.
• The project name, a link to the project page.
• The subtitle — Edited <time ago>, or Archived, or <Owner name> · Edited <time ago> for a teammate's.

Hovering reveals three controls in the top-right and bottom-right:

• The star, labelled Add to starred or Unstar. A starred project keeps its star visible when you are not hovering.
• An open-in-new-tab button, only when the app is running. It opens the live preview.
• A ⋯ menu: Rename, Star/Unstar, Archive, then Delete in red.

Renaming

Rename opens a small dialog titled Rename project with one field, Name, and buttons Rename and Cancel. Names are capped at 120 characters.

A rename changes nothing else. It does not affect a published address, which is set separately.

Empty states

Tab	Heading	Body
Projects	No projects yet	Describe an app above and Bookbag will build it in front of you, inside <organization>. Plus a + Build your first app button that focuses the composer.
Starred	No starred projects yet	Star a project or open one, and it shows up here.
Recently viewed	Nothing viewed yet	Star a project or open one, and it shows up here.

The Templates tab

Ten cards, each a starter prompt with an icon, a name and a one-line description:

Name	Description
SaaS landing page	Hero, feature grid, pricing, FAQ and footer.
Analytics dashboard	Stat tiles, charts and a data table.
Storefront	Product grid, detail pages and a cart.
Portfolio	Work showcase, about and contact.
Task manager	Projects, tasks, filters and persistence.
Restaurant site	Menu, gallery and reservations.
Blog	Post list, article pages and tags.
Booking page	Services, time slots and confirmation.
Pomodoro timer	Focus timer with sessions and stats.
Local business	Services, testimonials and contact.

Clicking one does not start a build. It switches you to the Projects tab, fills the composer with a long, detailed prompt, and scrolls you to the top so you can edit it first. That is usually worth doing — the starters are deliberately generic, and one sentence of your own makes the result much better.

Arriving from bookbag.ai

The marketing site's prompt box carries your text across. You land on the dashboard with the composer already filled, up to 2,000 characters, waiting for you to press Enter. Nothing builds until you do.

Messages you may see

Toast	Meaning
Could not load projects	The project list failed to load. Reload.
Could not start the build	The build was refused. The server's reason is in the description — most often the viewer refusal.
Could not rename / Could not archive / Could not delete	The action was refused, with the reason attached.
Could not update the star	The star did not stick; the page reloads.
Project archived / Project deleted	Success.

Next

• Creating a project.
• The chat — how you talk to the builder.