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Finding your projects

Learn how to locate projects in your account, organizations, repositories, and teams.

Browsing all of your projects

You can browse all of your projects, regardless of where they are located. You can see the projects you have recently viewed and the projects you have created, and apply your own filters.

  1. In the top left of any page, click to open the global navigation menu.

  2. In the menu, click Projects.

  3. Optionally, in the text box above the list of projects, enter a filter to choose which projects are displayed. For more information on filter syntax, see "Syntax for filtering a list of projects" in this article.

    Screenshot of the main page for a team. In the horizontal navigation bar, the "Projects" tab is outlined in dark orange.

  4. Click on the name of the project you want to open.

Finding an organization's projects

You can view and filter all the projects owned by an organization that you have access to.

  1. In the upper-right corner of GitHub, select your profile photo, then click Your organizations**.

  2. Click the name of your organization.

  3. Under the organization name, click Projects.

  4. Optionally, in the text box above the list of projects, enter a filter to choose which projects are displayed. For more information on filter syntax, see "Syntax for filtering a list of projects" in this article.

    Screenshot of the main page for a team. In the horizontal navigation bar, the "Projects" tab is outlined in dark orange.

  5. Click on the name of the project you want to open.

Finding projects owned by your personal account

You can view and filter projects that you have created under your personal account.

  1. In the top right corner of GitHub, click your profile photo, then click Your profile.

    Screenshot of the dropdown menu under @octocat's profile picture. "Your profile" is outlined in dark orange.

  2. On your profile, click Projects.

  3. Optionally, in the text box above the list of projects, enter a filter to choose which projects are displayed. For more information on filter syntax, see "Syntax for filtering a list of projects" in this article.

    Screenshot of the main page for a team. In the horizontal navigation bar, the "Projects" tab is outlined in dark orange.

  4. Click on the name of the project you want to open.

Finding projects linked to a repository

Repositories can be linked to organization-level and user-level projects. You can browse and filter the projects that are linked to a specific repository. For more information on linking projects to a repository, see "Adding your project to a repository."

  1. On GitHub, navigate to the main page of your repository.

  2. Click Projects.

    Screenshot showing a repository's tabs. The "Projects" tab is highlighted with an orange outline.

  3. Optionally, in the text box above the list of projects, enter a filter to choose which projects are displayed. For more information on filter syntax, see "Syntax for filtering a list of projects" in this article.

    Screenshot of the main page for a team. In the horizontal navigation bar, the "Projects" tab is outlined in dark orange.

  4. Click on the name of the project you want to open.

Finding projects linked to a team

You can also link a project to specific teams in an organization and then browse and filter the projects that are associated with a particular team. For more information on linking projects, see "Adding your project to a team."

  1. In the upper-right corner of GitHub, select your profile photo, then click Your organizations**.

  2. Click the name of your organization.

  3. Under your organization name, click Teams.

    Screenshot of the horizontal navigation bar for an organization. A tab, labeled with the people icon and "Teams," is outlined in dark orange.

  4. Click the name of the team.

  5. Click Projects.

    Screenshot of the main page for a team. In the horizontal navigation bar, the "Projects" tab is outlined in dark orange.

  6. Optionally, in the text box above the list of projects, enter a filter to choose which projects are displayed. For more information on filter syntax, see "Syntax for filtering a list of projects" in this article.

    Screenshot of the main page for a team. In the horizontal navigation bar, the "Projects" tab is outlined in dark orange.

  7. Click on the name of the project you want to open.

Syntax for filtering a list of projects

You can combine filters and even search project titles by including text. For example, is:open creator:octocat game will return open projects, created by the @octocat user, with the word "game" in the project title. You can use the search qualifiers in the following table to narrow down your search for a project.

QualifierExplanation
is:openReturns projects that are currently open.
is:closedReturns projects that are currently closed.
is:templateReturns projects that are marked as a template.
is:privateReturns projects are set to private visibility.
is:publicReturns projects are set to public visibility.
creator:USERNAMEReturns projects created by USERNAME. For example, creator:octocat will return projects created by @octocat.

You can also change how the projects are ordered.

QualifierExplanation
sort:title-ascSort by project title.
sort:updated-asc or sort:updated-descSort by when the project was last updated.
sort:created-asc or sort:created-descSort by when the project was created.