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Creating & Managing Projects

Published February 27, 2026 · Last updated March 7, 2026 · 3 min read

This guide walks you through creating a new project, renaming it, duplicating it, and moving artifacts between projects.

Create a Project

The quickest way: ask the agent.

Create a new project called Q4 Customer Analysis

The agent creates the project, opens it, and you're ready to go. You can include more detail — like "create a project called Q4 Customer Analysis with a sheet for tracking renewal dates" — and the agent will set up the structure for you.

To create one manually:

  1. Click New Project on your home screen, or click the + button in the top-right of the Projects section.

  2. Type a name for your project and press Enter.

Obvious opens your new project automatically. From here you can start a conversation with the agent, create artifacts, or upload files.

Rename a Project

Click the project name in the toolbar at the top of the project. The name becomes editable — type the new name and press Enter.

You can also open the ⋯ menu in the toolbar and select Rename.

Tip: Obvious auto-renames new projects based on your first conversation. Once you rename a project manually, auto-renaming stops — the name you choose sticks.

Duplicate a Project

Duplicating copies everything in a project — documents, sheets, files, and folder structure — into a new project.

  1. Open the ⋯ menu in the project toolbar (or right-click the project on your home screen).

  2. Click Duplicate.

  3. Obvious creates a copy with the same name plus "Copy." Rename it to something that makes sense.

Duplicating is useful when you want to reuse a project's structure as a starting point without affecting the original.

Organize Projects with Folders and Favorites

On your home screen, you can switch between Recent, Favorites, and Workspace views to find projects quickly.

To favorite a project, open the ⋯ menu and select Favorite. Favorited projects appear in the Favorites view on your home screen and are marked with a star.

To organize projects into folders, you can create project folders from the Projects page and drag projects into them.

Copy or Move Artifacts Between Projects

You can copy or move any artifact — documents, sheets, views — from one project to another.

  1. Open the artifact you want to copy or move.

  2. Click the ⋯ menu in the artifact header.

  3. Select Copy to or Move to, then choose an existing project or create a new one.

Copy leaves the original in place and creates a duplicate in the target project. Move transfers the artifact entirely — it's removed from the current project.

You can also ask the agent:

Move the Q3 Analysis sheet to my Board Prep project

Delete a Project

  1. Open the ⋯ menu in the project toolbar (or right-click the project on your home screen).

  2. Click Delete.

  3. Confirm the deletion.

Warning: Deleting a project removes all its artifacts, sheets, and files permanently. Export anything you need before deleting.

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