Tracking Progress

Tracking progress is at the heart of managing your music production workflow. Whether you’re working on a single track or juggling dozens of songs across multiple projects, Producer Dashboard gives you the tools to see where everything stands — at a glance or in detail.

This guide walks you through how progress tracking works in the Tracks view, how to interpret stage indicators, and how to use tools like excitement levels and due dates to keep your projects moving forward.

How Progress Works in Producer Dashboard

Every track in your library has a stage that tells you where it is in the production pipeline. Stages represent the specific phase of work. The default stages are Seed, Sprout, Sapling, Tree, and Flower, but you can rename or replace them in Settings if your workflow uses different terminology.

When you open the Tracks view, you’ll see this information displayed in dedicated columns. The stage appears as a colored badge, and the workflow state shows as a label. This means you can scan your entire library and instantly spot which tracks are actively being worked on versus which ones are waiting for attention.

The system is designed to give you flexibility. You can view all tracks together, or use the filters to focus on just the ones that need your attention right now — whether that’s tracks stuck in editing, tracks ready for final review, or tracks with approaching deadlines.

Reading Stage Indicators

Stages appear as colored badges in the tracks grid and in the overview widget in the activity panel. Each stage has its own color, which you can customize in Settings.

When you open a track, you can see the full list of available stages and change the current stage with a single click.

Filtering by Stage and Workflow

The Tracks page includes powerful filtering options that let you narrow down your view based on progress criteria. You can filter to show only tracks in specific stages, or exclude certain stages entirely.

For example, imagine you want to focus only on tracks in a particular stage. Open the filter panel, select the stages you want to see, and your grid updates instantly. The filter count badge in the toolbar tells you how many active filters are applied, so you always know whether you’re seeing your full library or a subset.

Negative filtering is also supported — meaning you can exclude tracks in certain stages rather than including specific ones. This is handy when you want to see everything except tracks that are already published or tracks currently on hold.

The excitement filter adds another dimension. You can set a minimum and maximum excitement level (on a scale from 0 to 100) to surface tracks that match a particular energy vibe. Maybe you want to find your most energetic, high-impact tracks for a playlist, or pull up your more laid-back, ambient pieces. The excitement filter makes this possible without manually tagging every song.

Setting Excitement Levels

Excitement is a subjective energy rating that you assign to each track. It’s not tied to technical quality — it’s about the mood and intensity of the music. A track might be polished and finished but still have a low excitement rating if it’s a slow, atmospheric piece.

You can set excitement from 0 to 100 in increments of 10. To change a track’s excitement level, select it in the grid and open the detail modal. Look for the excitement meter and drag the slider to your desired value. The change saves automatically.

Using excitement filters alongside stage filters gives you a dynamic view of your library. You might filter for all tracks in the Mixing stage with excitement above 70, which would surface your most energetic songs currently in that phase. This helps when you’re planning release schedules or building playlists.

Managing Due Dates and Deadlines

Due dates add time-based urgency to your progress tracking. When you set a due date on a track, a small chip appears in the overview widget showing the deadline. Tracks with due dates approaching within the next few days are highlighted in the grid so they catch your eye.

To set or change a due date, open the track detail modal and look for the due date field. You can pick a specific date from the calendar picker or clear it if no deadline applies. Once set, the due date carries through to any bucket or project view where that track appears.

When multiple tracks are selected, the overview widget shows whether the selection shares a single due date or contains mixed dates. This helps you batch-update deadlines when planning a release run or a session with a collaborator.

Using the Kanban View for Progress

If you prefer a board-based view of progress, the Kanban mode arranges your tracks by stage into columns. Each column represents a stage, and tracks appear as cards that you can drag from one column to another to update their stage.

The Kanban view is particularly useful when you’re reviewing your full catalog and want to move several tracks forward in bulk. Select multiple cards, then drag them together to a new stage column. The system updates each track’s stage and logs the change in the track history.

You can also combine the Kanban view with bucket filtering to see progress within a specific project. If you’re managing an album or EP, switch to Kanban view, filter by the relevant bucket, and you’ll see all tracks for that project arranged by stage — a clear visual of what’s done, what’s in progress, and what’s still to come.

Tracking Collaboration Progress

When you work with collaborators, progress tracking extends beyond your own view. Collaborators can update stage, add comments, and modify due dates on shared tracks. The system logs these changes and displays collaborator activity in the track timeline.

The collaborators column in the track grid shows who’s involved with each track. Clicking the avatar cluster opens a popup listing all collaborators with their roles. If you’re the track owner, you can manage collaborator access and permissions from this popup.

For tracks in shared Dropbox folders, the sync status is indicated with a small icon. When collaborators add new versions or files, the track’s display name updates to reflect the latest file, and the sync timestamp shows when the information was last pulled from Dropbox.

Tips

Use stage colors consistently — pick a color scheme for your stages and stick with it across the app so you can scan your library faster
Set excitement early — assign excitement levels when you first import a track so filtering by energy becomes useful from day one
Combine filters for review sessions — before a meeting with a collaborator, filter to their tracks only and review due dates and stages in advance
Batch-update stages in Kanban — when wrapping up a session, switch to Kanban view, select recent tracks, and drag them to the next stage in one motion
Watch the filter count — if the badge shows more filters than expected, click to review and clear any that aren’t needed before taking bulk actions