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title: "Projects"
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description: "Learn more and understand the concept of Infisical projects."
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A secrets management project in Infisical is a dedicated workspace for managing application secrets such as API keys, database credentials, configuration, etc. used by your applications.
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Secrets are organized into a clear hierarchy of environments, folders, and individual secrets, making it easy to manage values across different stages of your development lifecycle (e.g., development, staging, production).
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## Project environments
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For both visual and organizational structure, Infisical allows splitting up secrets into environments (e.g., development, staging, production). In project settings, such environments can be
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customized depending on the intended use case.
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## Secrets Overview
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The **Secrets Overview** page captures a birds-eye-view of secrets and [folders](./folder) across environments.
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This is useful for comparing secrets, identifying if anything is missing, and making quick changes.
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## Secrets Dashboard
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The **Secrets Dashboard** page appears when you press to manage the secrets of a specific environment.
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### Secrets
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To add a secret, press **Add Secret** button at the top of the dashboard.
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For a new project, it can be convenient to populate the dashboard by dropping a `.env` file into the provided pane as shown below:
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To delete a secret, hover over it and press the **X** button that appears on the right side.
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To delete multiple secrets at once, hover over and select the secrets you'd like to delete
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and press the **Delete** button that appears at the top.
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### Search
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To search for specific secrets by their key name, you can use the search bar.
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To assist you with finding secrets, you can also group them by similar prefixes and filter them by tags (if applicable).
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### Hide/Un-hide
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To view/hide all secrets at once, toggle the hide or un-hide button.
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### Download as .env
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To download/export secrets back into a `.env` file, press the download button.
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### Tags
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To better organize similar secrets, hover over them and label them with a tag.
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### Comments
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To provide more context about a given secret, especially for your team, hover over it and press the comment button.
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### Personal overrides
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Infisical employs the concept of **shared** and **personal** secrets to address the need
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for common and custom secret values, or branching, amongst members of a team during software development.
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To provide a helpful analogy: A shared value is to a `main` branch as a personal value is to a custom branch.
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Consider:
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- A team with users A, B, user C.
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- A project with an environment containing a shared secret called D with the value E.
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Suppose user A overrides the value of secret D with the value F.
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Then:
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- If user A fetches the secret D back, they get the value F.
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- If users B and C fetch the secret D back, they both get the value E.
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<Info>
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Please keep in mind that secret reminders won't work with personal overrides.
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</Info>
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### Drawer
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To view the full details of each secret, you can hover over it and press on the ellipses button.
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This opens up a side-drawer:
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