# Want tips -How Do You Organize Your Ignition 8.1 Projects? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Tags:** ignition81\ **Created:** [July 9, 2025, 11:34am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/want-tips-how-do-you-organize-your-ignition-8-1-projects/108266 "2025-07-09T11:34:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![Ryan\_Deardorff](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/ryan_deardorff/32/63815_2.png) [@Ryan\_Deardorff](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Ryan_Deardorff)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 1:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/want-tips-how-do-you-organize-your-ignition-8-1-projects/108266/4 "2025-07-09T13:38:37Z")
I mostly use embedded views for reusable components, but be aware that they come with a performance cost, especially if you go multiple levels deep. There's a good discussion about this [here](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/what-is-the-answer-to-perspective-templates/54259/11). For folder structure, I typically nest `/Embedded` and `/Popups` within my main view folders. My projects all inherit from a `Master` project that has a root `UI` folder where I store all the reusable components. Every project has a corresponding development version where I do all my building and testing before exporting changes to the live version. They use the same name, but lowercase and starting with an underscore, so I develop in `_master` and deploy (export) tested changes to `Master`. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/want-tips-how-do-you-organize-your-ignition-8-1-projects/108266)._