Dashboard

The dashboard is the first screen you see after you sign in to Meno. It is your home base for creating, opening, and organizing projects. Every project is a normal Astro codebase on disk — pages and components under src/, plus project.config.json, colors.json, and variables.json — and the dashboard is where you reach for them.

Header bar

At the top sits the header bar. On the left is the Meno logo and the context switcher, where you choose whose projects you're viewing — your personal account or one of your organizations. On the right you'll find the license badge showing your current tier, a theme toggle for light, dark, or system mode, and the user menu where your account and sign-out live.

Switching context filters the whole dashboard: pick an organization and you see that org's projects and members; switch back to personal and you see only your own. See Organizations for how shared workspaces and membership work.

Your projects

Each project appears as a card showing its name, a tier badge, and a status indicator. When a project's dev server is running you'll see a green dot with Running; while it spins up it shows Opening. If you have many projects, the search bar at the top filters the grid instantly as you type.

Click a card to open the project. Meno starts the Astro dev server in the background and, once it's ready, opens the visual editor automatically. If the project is already running, it opens right away.

Creating a project

Click New to create a project. You get three starting points:

• Starter — a working site with example pages, components, and CMS content

• Blank — an empty Astro project to compose from scratch

• Clone — pull in an existing repository from GitHub

Enter a name and the slug auto-generates from it; edit the slug if you like. If GitHub is connected, you can check Create GitHub repo to push the project automatically. Click Create and the project appears in the grid.

The Starter template gives you a runnable Astro site out of the box: a few pages under src/pages/, a CMS template route (src/pages/blog/[slug].astro) with sample entries under src/content/blog/, a library of components in src/components/, and color themes plus responsive breakpoints already wired up.

Opening an existing project

You can also bring in a project that already lives somewhere else:

• A local folder — point Meno at any Astro project directory on your machine. Meno reads the .astro files directly, so a hand-edited codebase opens straight into the editor.

• A Git repo — use Clone to fetch a repository from GitHub into a local folder, then open it like any other project.

Because a Meno project is a plain Astro codebase, you can edit it visually in the editor or by hand in .astro files — the two stay in sync through the meno-astro codec.

Card menu

Every card has a three-dot menu. From there you can open the project on GitHub, change its license tier, copy the folder path, stop the dev server, delete the project, or transfer it to a different organization.

Connecting to GitHub

Connect your GitHub account once and the dashboard gains repo-aware actions: cloning a repo into a new project, creating a remote repo when you create a project, and opening a project's repo from its card menu. Pushing and pulling then work as they would for any Astro codebase. See GitHub for setup and the full sync workflow.

Account and plan

Your account and plan status live in the header. The license badge reflects your current tier, and the user menu is where you manage your account. A project's tier can also be changed from its card menu. See Licensing for tiers, activation, and limits.

When a new version of Meno is available, an update banner appears below the header. Click it to install, and the app restarts on the latest version.