# Secrets for apps
**URL:** https://community.doppler.com/t/secrets-for-apps/316
**Category:** Need Help
**Created:** [September 4, 2021, 1:00am UTC](https://community.doppler.com/t/secrets-for-apps/316 "2021-09-04T01:00:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@alejandro485](https://community.doppler.com/u/alejandro485)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2021, 1:00am UTC](https://community.doppler.com/t/secrets-for-apps/316/1 "2021-09-04T01:00:25Z")
Hi Doppler team,
First of all, thank you for making Doppler the great tool it is.
What I want to know (or propose) is that doppler can relate the secrets to particular projects, since for example working on something similar to microservices, many applications share variables, and differ in others, and I think it is a nonsense to have all variables for all applications.
Now, using the branches in the environments for I don’t see it so organic since it would necessarily eliminate variables in the branches which can be risky in such a delicate management, besides, the use of branches benefits in my case the overwriting of variables for concrete cases or particularities of the set of services.
In any case I leave this doubt in the air and thank you for your time.
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### Author:  [@ryan-blunden](https://community.doppler.com/u/ryan-blunden)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2021, 1:31am UTC](https://community.doppler.com/t/secrets-for-apps/316/2 "2021-09-04T01:31:17Z")
Hi Diego,
Managing shared secrets across projects (e.g NPM credentials to a private registry) is best handled by our [cross-project secrets referencing](https://docs.doppler.com/docs/enclave-secrets#referencing-across-projects) feature.
Some customers create a single project to group all shared secrets under, or individual projects if tighter access controls are required.
Would that provide the solution you’re looking for?
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### Author:  [@alejandro485](https://community.doppler.com/u/alejandro485)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2021, 2:27am UTC](https://community.doppler.com/t/secrets-for-apps/316/3 "2021-09-04T02:27:47Z")
Yes!!
I was thinking in a functionality inside a project, like tags or a grid, but dividing that load in several projects can solve the situation.
Thanks a lot.
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### Author:  [@ryan-blunden](https://community.doppler.com/u/ryan-blunden)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2021, 7:47am UTC](https://community.doppler.com/t/secrets-for-apps/316/4 "2021-09-04T07:47:53Z")
Great to hear Diego!