# Creating a project
Learn how to create an organization or user project.
Projects are an adaptable collection of items that stay up-to-date with GitHub data. Your projects can track issues, pull requests, and ideas that you note down. You can add custom fields and create views for specific purposes.
You can also choose to use an existing project as a template and copy the views and custom fields to a new project. For more information, see [Copying an existing project](/en/issues/planning-and-tracking-with-projects/creating-projects/copying-an-existing-project).
## Creating a project
### Creating an organization project
Organization projects can track issues and pull requests from the organization's repositories. You can also set projects in your organization as templates, and curate a list of recommended templates to highlight, that other organization members can then use as the base for the projects they create. For more information, see [Managing project templates in your organization](/en/issues/planning-and-tracking-with-projects/managing-your-project/managing-project-templates-in-your-organization).
1. In the upper-right corner of GitHub, click your profile picture, then click ** Organizations**.
2. Click the name of your organization.
3. Under your organization name, click ** Projects**.
4. Click **New project**.
5. Select which type of project or template you want to use.
* To create a blank project, under "Start from scratch," click **Table**, **Roadmap**, or **Board**.
* To create a project from a template, click the template you want to use. You can select from the built-in templates curated by GitHub, the templates created by your organization, and the recommended templates that have been chosen by your organization.
6. Optionally, if you selected a template, review the fields, views, workflows, and insights that will be created.
7. In the text box under "Project name," type a name for your new project.
8. Optionally, start your project with items already added by selecting **Import items from repository**. All new and existing items from the chosen repository will be added to your project, and it will be designated as your project's default repository.
9. Click **Create project**.
### Creating a user project
User projects can track issues and pull requests from the repositories owned by your personal account.
1. In the top right corner of GitHub, click your profile picture, then click **Your profile**.
2. On your profile, click ** Projects**.
3. Click **New project**.
4. Select which type of project or template you want to use.
* To create a blank project, under "Start from scratch", click **Table**, **Roadmap**, or **Board**.
* To create a project from a template, click the built-in template that you want to use.
5. Optionally, if you selected a template, review the fields, views, workflows, and insights that will be created.
6. In the text box under "Project name", type a name for your new project.
7. Click **Create project**.
## Updating your project description and README
You can set your project's description and README to share the purpose of your project, provide instructions on how to use the project, and include any relevant links.
1. Navigate to your project.
2. In the top-right, click to open the menu.
3. In the menu, click ** Settings** to access the project settings.
4. To add a short description to your project, under "Add a description", type your description in the text box and click **Save**.
5. To update your project's README, under "README", type your content in the text box.
* You can format your README using Markdown. For more information, see [Basic writing and formatting syntax](/en/get-started/writing-on-github/getting-started-with-writing-and-formatting-on-github/basic-writing-and-formatting-syntax).
* To toggle between the text box and a preview of your changes, click or .
6. To save changes to your README, click **Save**.
You can view and make quick changes to your project description and README by navigating to your project and clicking in the top right.
## Further reading
* [Adding your project to a repository](/en/issues/planning-and-tracking-with-projects/managing-your-project/adding-your-project-to-a-repository)
* [Adding items to your project](/en/issues/planning-and-tracking-with-projects/managing-items-in-your-project/adding-items-to-your-project)
* [Changing the layout of a view](/en/issues/planning-and-tracking-with-projects/customizing-views-in-your-project/changing-the-layout-of-a-view)