The Dashboard
Create songs, organize your library, find other users, and manage your account from the Chordly dashboard.
The dashboard is your home base in Chordly. This is where you create songs, reopen older ones, organize your library, check messages, update your profile, and manage account settings.
What lives in the dashboard
The main sidebar gives you:
Lower in the sidebar, you'll find:
At the top of the sidebar, you'll also see:
- New Song
- Import ChordPro
- the theme toggle
New Song creates a blank song and opens the editor immediately. Import ChordPro lets you bring an existing ChordPro or supported text file into Chordly. The theme button switches between system, light, and dark modes.
Your library starts on the home page
When you land on /home, the main dashboard area shows two things:
- your folders
- your songs
Above them, you have a search field and filter controls. The filters let you sort by modified date or created date, filter by date range, and separate songs you own from songs shared with you.
You may also see announcements in the top area of the page from time to time.
This is your working library. Use folders and favorites to get to the songs you need faster.
Folders and favorites solve different problems
Folders and favorites look similar at first, but they solve different problems.
Folders are for structure. Use them when you want groups that stay meaningful over time, such as:
- a worship set
- songs for one band
- rehearsal material for a month
- songs for one event
Favorites are for speed. Use them when you want one-tap access to the songs and folders you come back to most, even if they belong to different projects.
As your library grows, that difference matters. Folders answer "where should this live?" Favorites answer "what do I need right now?"
The social side of Chordly
Find Users lets you search by username, send friend requests, accept incoming requests, and open another user's profile.
Messages gives you direct conversations with friends already connected to your account.
Notifications keeps friend-request activity in one place so you can accept, reject, or dismiss it without hunting through other screens.
Your own Profile is where you set the public-facing parts of your account, like your profile picture, cover photo, bio, and links.
Discover Songs
Discover Songs takes you out of your own library and into Chordly's broader song browsing experience.
Settings
Settings gives you access to:
The deeper settings docs cover each section in detail.
Start with what you need
- Open Song Library if you want the main search, filters, and song list.
- Open Folders if you want a cleaner library structure.
- Open Favorites if you want faster access to the songs and folders you revisit most.
- Open Find Users if you want to add friends or view another user's profile.
- Open Profile if you want to update how your own account appears to others.
- Open Settings if you need account, billing, security, or theme controls.