Concept: How the Motion team sets up their Motion

Why Favorites Matter

Favorites are designed to speed up navigation and keep important work within reach. Here’s why this feature will make your Motion experience even better:

✅ Save Time: Instantly access your most-used projects, folders, and views without searching.

✅ Stay Organized: Keep high-priority items at your fingertips and reduce clutter in your workspace.

✅ Work Smarter: Spend less time clicking through menus and more time focusing on your work.

How We Use Favorites at Motion

Here’s how we’re already using Favorites to improve our workflows

For Project Management: We favorite key projects like “Marketing Campaigns” and “Product Launches” to keep them easily accessible.

Note: You can't favorite the whole workspace, you can only favorite, docs, folders, and projects

Method 1: From the sidebar

1. Go to your sidebar.

2. Expand the workspace list for the project you want to favorite.

3. Hover the item you want to favorite.

4. Open the ⋯ menu → Add to Favorites.

5. Confirm it appears under Favorites in the left sidebar.

6. In your favorites list, you can drag to customize your favorites list using the 6 dots.

Method 2: From the item page

1. In your sidebar, click on the workspace.

2. Click into the project.

3. In the header, click on the ⋯ → Add to Favorites.

4. Check the Favorites section in the sidebar; the item should now be listed.

For Teams & Departments: We favorite folders & docs like “Growth” or “Engineering” to quickly jump into the projects we work on the most

Task Monitoring

We add saved views like “Past Due Projects” or “High-Priority Tasks” to stay on top of critical work.

How to Create and Favorite a Saved View

1. Open Projects & Tasks from the sidebar.

2. Use filters and sorting to narrow down what you want to monitor (e.g., Status = Overdue or Priority = High).

   1. To filter for Status:

      1. Click on Filters.

      2. Click on + beside Projects.

      3. Scroll down to Statuses.

      4. Select the Statuses you want to filter for.

3. At the top of the views tab, click the ⋯ menu (next to the view name).

4. Select Save as new view.

5. Give your view a clear name, like Past Due Projects.

6. Go to your newly created view Past Due Projects. Open the ⋯ menu and select Add to Favorites.

7. Confirm the view now appears under Favorites in your sidebar.