Organise the projects in the side menu, and understand what rename, archive, delete and member homes really do

The Projects list in the side menu holds your projects, folders and the Member homes folder. See what create, rename, archive and delete change, and who sees which project.

Where

The Projects list in the side menu of the Sasha web interface. Each project and folder has a three-dot menu.

Who

Admin and staff accounts. Members cannot sign in to the web interface; they reach their home and granted projects from Claude only.

Needs

An admin or staff account. To give a member a home, an admin adds the person as a member in Settings → Users.

What this screen is for

A project is a named collection of documents and the chats about them. The Projects list in the side menu shows every project you can open. You use it to start chats, group projects into folders, and rename, archive or delete projects. For the basic idea of projects and homes, see How Sasha organises your knowledge into projects and documents.

The list has four kinds of item:

Each row shows the number of chats. Click a row to open the project and its chats.

Sort, filter and archived projects

Sort projects (the funnel button at the top of the side menu) opens a menu with:

• Filter by name...: type to show only the projects whose name matches.
• Recent, Alphabetical, Starred: the order of the list.
• Archived: shows archived projects too. Turn it off to hide them again.

Make a folder or a project

1. Click New Folder at the top of the side menu.
2. Type the Folder name.
3. Click Create to make the folder and one new project in it, labelled "chat 1". Or click Create empty folder instead to make only the folder.

To add a project to a folder that exists, open the folder's three-dot menu and choose Start new project. Sasha asks for the name in a small browser box.

Sasha cleans the name before it makes the project's folder:

• capital letters become lower case;
• every character that is not a letter, a digit, - or _ becomes -;
• the name is cut to 50 characters.

Sasha refuses a name that is in use, the name of a retired member home, and names it keeps for itself (names that start with a dot, and names in the form member- followed by a number).

The project menu

Open a project's three-dot menu. At the top, Project summary shows the number of chats, the most recent activity, and Docs (the files that the project's chats made). Below are the actions:

A folder's three-dot menu has Rename folder, Start new project, and Delete folder (only when the folder is empty).

Rename changes the label only

A rename never moves a file. Sasha keeps the project's folder name, and other places show that name:

So choose a clear name when you make a project. A rename that fails shows only "Failed to rename project". The usual cause is an empty label or a label longer than 100 characters. While a chat is still answering, Sasha does not rename and shows "Please wait for the current response to finish".

Delete a project

1. Open the project's three-dot menu and choose Delete.
2. Read the Delete Project dialog. It says "This action cannot be undone".
3. Optional: tick Also delete all files in this project.
4. Type DELETE in the box. Delete Project stays disabled until you do.
5. Click Delete Project.

Sasha removes the project's chats and their records, then the project's entry in the side menu. Without the tick, the dialog says "Files remain in the Files tab for separate deletion". With the tick, Sasha also removes the project's working files. Today the project's folder in the Files panel stays, with its documents, even with the tick. Delete that folder in the Files panel if you need to (see Add, find, preview, download and remove the documents in your Sasha, and know what Sasha does to each file you upload).

Member homes

When an admin adds a member, Sasha makes the member's home: a project for that member (private from other members), with a name such as member-4. In the side menu, the home appears in Member homes, labelled with the member's account name. The label is set once; you can change it with Rename.

• Admin and staff accounts see every home. They can open its documents, add and change them, and chat in it. Sasha tells such a chat to save its documents in the home, so the member can read them from Claude.
• The menu of a home has no Move project to folder, Move documents to project, Archive or Delete. Sasha also refuses these actions on the server: "A member home folder cannot be deleted or moved. An admin can remove the member in Settings → Users."
• When an admin deletes the member's account, Sasha archives the home's project and keeps its chats.
• Retire Home in Settings → Users is permanent. The home's folder goes to an archive and the name is never used again.

Members never see this list. A member reaches their own home, and the shared projects that an admin granted them, from Claude. Grants are on the Add people to Sasha, give each person a role, and control what members can reach page. For what each role can do, see Who can do what in Sasha.

Who can do what here

Sasha answers a request for a project you cannot reach as if the project does not exist. Nobody can find a hidden project by its name.

Limits to know

• Today, Create in the New Folder dialog always makes a project labelled "chat 1". The dialog calls it "a new chat". Use Create empty folder instead, then Start new project in the folder's menu.
• Today, Also delete all files in this project does not remove the project's folder in the Files panel. Delete it there.
• A rename changes the label only. The Files panel, the chat top bar and Claude keep the first name.
• Docs in the Project summary counts only files that the project's chats made, not the project's documents.
• An archived project is still searched by Sasha and Claude.
• Today, after Retire Home, the home's project can stay in Member homes, and its menu offers no Archive or Delete. Deleting the member's account archives it.
• Start new project is also offered in the Member homes folder. It makes an ordinary shared project there, not a home.
• An empty list can show text from older software, such as "Run Claude CLI in a project directory to get started". Ignore it.