Find and search projects

Lovable gives you several ways to find projects: the command palette for quick search, and filtering and sorting options on project list pages.

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Command palette

Press Cmd+K (Mac) or Ctrl+K (Windows/Linux) to open the command palette, or click Search in the sidebar. The command palette is the fastest way to find and open projects or folders. It also works inside the project editor.

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Searching

Before you type anything, the command palette shows:

• Recent projects: Projects you’ve recently opened
• Recent folders: Folders you’ve recently accessed

Start typing to search across all your projects and folders. Results are grouped into Projects and Folders sections as you type. When you hover over a project or folder in the search results, a preview panel appears showing project details and folder contents. Click any item to open it immediately.

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Open a project by ID or URL

You can also paste a project reference into the command palette to open that project:

• The project’s editor URL, like https://lovable.dev/projects/<project-id>. Links to a specific page inside the editor, such as the project’s settings, work too.
• The project ID on its own.

If you have access to the project, it appears at the top of the Projects group with its name. Pasting doesn’t open the project by itself. Press Enter or click the result to open it, like any other row. Published app URLs (for example yourapp.lovable.app) are not project links and don’t return a result. A pasted ID for a deleted project or a project you can’t access returns nothing either. A pasted editor URL that Lovable can’t match to one of your projects shows an Open project page row under a Link heading instead: selecting it takes you to the link’s page in Lovable, where you see an error if the project doesn’t exist or you don’t have access.

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Quick navigation

The command palette also lets you navigate to:

• Dashboard page
• Workspace and project settings: search by name to go to a section, such as billing, people, or identity
• Connectors and integrations
• Theme switching (Light / Dark / System)
• Switch between workspaces

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Search from the dashboard project tabs

The dashboard’s project tabs bar has a Search entry. Select it and the tabs turn into a search box that filters across all your project lists at once. You do not have to switch tabs to find a project. Type to filter by a project’s name or its owner, and select X or press Escape to close the search box.

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Project list

More projects load automatically as you scroll down. On the Projects page you can:

• Search: Type in the search field to filter projects by name. Results update as you type.
• Filter: Select Filter to narrow the list by owner, folder, visibility, publish status, and more. See Filtering projects.
• View: Select View to choose between grid and list, and to set how projects are sorted. See Sorting and display.

The New project button takes you to the dashboard’s prompt input to start a project, and New folder opens the dialog to create a folder. A folder’s page has the same search field and View menu, and it filters by owner, visibility, and publish status.

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Filtering projects

Select Filter to open the Filter projects menu. The menu has its own search box, so you can type a filter’s name instead of looking through the list. Every filter you apply appears as a chip next to the controls, showing the filter’s name and what you set it to. Select a chip’s remove icon to drop that filter, the + button to add another, or Clear filters to remove all of them at once. You can filter by:

• Owner: Select one or more workspace members to see only their projects, or keep All owners (default). Search the owner list to find a member in a large workspace. Shared with me shows the projects other people shared with you, and replaces any members you had selected.
• Folder: Show only the projects in one folder, or keep All folders (default). Select No folder to see the projects that are not in any folder.
• Visibility: Filter projects based on project access and visibility:
  • Any visibility (default): All projects regardless of visibility
  • Workspace: Projects accessible to workspace members
  • Restricted: Projects accessible only to the owner and invited collaborators. This option appears when your workspace can create restricted projects.
• Publish status: Filter projects based on publish status:
  • Any status (default): All projects regardless of publish status
  • All published: All published projects (internal and external)
  • Internally published: Projects published to workspace only
  • Externally published: Projects published publicly to the web
  • Not published: Draft projects that haven’t been published
• Starred: Show only the projects you have starred.
• Recent projects: Show only the projects you opened recently.

The Folder, Starred, and Recent projects filters appear only on the Projects page.

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Sorting and display

Select View to set how the project list looks and in what order it appears. Grid and List appear at the top of the menu, followed by Sort by and Order.

• Grid and List: Grid is the default and shows project cards with thumbnails. List shows a compact list, and on the Projects page it includes a Folder column. Your choice is saved in your browser and persists across sessions. This choice is not available on mobile.
• Sort by: Sort the project list based on different criteria:
  • Last edited: Sort by last edited date, newest first or oldest first
  • Last viewed: Sort by last viewed date, newest first or oldest first
  • Created: Sort by created date, newest first or oldest first
  • Name: Sort alphabetically by project name, A–Z or Z–A
  • Relevance: Sort by most relevant or least relevant search results, available only while a search is active
  • Visits: Under Popularity, sort by visits in the last 24 hours, 7 days, or 30 days, most popular or least popular
• Order: Set the direction of the sort. The choices follow the criterion you sorted on, and choosing a new criterion resets the order to that criterion’s default.

Lovable keeps your filter, sort, and search choices in the page URL. You can navigate into a project and back, refresh the page, or share focused dashboard views with teammates without losing your place.