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Create a Project

Article Metadata
Category Project Hub
Difficulty Beginner
Target OS Windows · macOS (coming soon)
Summary Start a new project and choose where its folder lives.

A project holds one story: its manuscript, its Lorebook, and its images. Most writers use one project per book or campaign. Though Cicero gives you the freedom to write whatever you want, how you want it.

Create a project

Section titled “Create a project”

  1. Open the Project Hub. (Inside a project, click the C logo at the top of the nav rail.)

  2. Click New Project in the top bar.

  3. Fill in the details:

    Field Required? Notes
    Project Name Yes Your story’s title. You can change it later.
    Author No Your name or pen name.
    Description No A synopsis or a note to yourself.
    Type Yes Novel, Short Story, Novella, Script, DnD Campaign, Non-Fiction, or + Custom.
    Tags No Type a tag → press Enter. Use tags for genre, mood, series, anything.
    Language — English. It can’t be changed. Yet.
    Save Location — Where the project’s folder is created. See below.

  4. Optional: hover over the banner image at the top → click Add Banner → choose a PNG, JPEG, or WEBP image (up to 10 MB).

  5. Click Create Project.

Your project appears in the grid. Cicero doesn’t open it automatically: click its card to open it.

If you leave Type empty, Cicero shows “Please select or enter a project type.” Pick a type, then click Create Project again.

Choose where it’s saved

Section titled “Choose where it’s saved”

By default, Cicero creates the project folder in Documents\Cicero Projects (macOS: Documents/Cicero Projects). The Save Location line shows the exact path before you create the project.

To save this one project somewhere else: click the folder button next to Save Location → pick a folder → click Select Folder. This doesn’t change the default for future projects.

To change the default for all new projects: open Settings (the gear) → General → Default Projects Location.

Change details later

Section titled “Change details later”

Right-click the project’s card → Edit. You can also edit the details from the Overview card on the project’s Dashboard.

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