Create your account
Verifying that six-digit code is what creates your account. No password, no name to fill in, and a workspace called My Archive waiting when you land.
Updated Aug 14, 20262 min readApplies to 1.1.5
les Archives is passwordless from end to end. You give us an email address, we send you a six-digit code, and the code is the whole of your identity check. No password to set, forget, or reset.
Activation already did this
If you've just come through the activation card, your account exists. Verifying the code created it, linked your license to it, and made your workspace. Nothing else to fill in.
Everything below is what you'll see on later launches, or on a second Mac.
Signing in after that
The sign-in card is headed Sign in, and it says so plainly: "We'll email you a 6-digit code to sign in. No password to remember."
- Type your email address into [ EMAIL ADDRESS ].
- Press [ SEND ME A CODE ].
- Type the six digits and press [ SIGN IN ].
The one link under that card is [ WRONG LICENSE KEY? ], which takes you back to activation. That is the only escape hatch on the screen.
Your workspace is made for you
No screen asks you to name a workspace, and you have not missed a step. The moment your code verifies, we create one and put you in it. Everything you catalog lives there.
A brand new account gets a workspace called My Archive.
You can't rename it in the app. If the name is wrong, tell us and we'll change it on our side.
What we don't ask you for
No password. No name. No Remember me on this Mac checkbox. None of those exist in the app, so if you're looking for one, stop looking.
Your name and email do show up later, in Settings, on the ACCOUNT PROFILE row in Chapter 01. That row is a readout. It shows what we have on file rather than letting you edit it.
The name that actually shapes your writing is BRAND NAME in Chapter 02, The Voice, and you set that yourself. Covered under Set yourself up.
Nothing prompts you
Signing in doesn't connect Dropbox and it doesn't set up your brand voice. Nothing walks you into either one. Both live in Settings, and you have to open Settings yourself.
That is the next article, and it's worth doing before you catalog anything.
When it puts you back at a sign in screen
Normally you stay signed in. Three things end that: signing out on purpose, a session that has sat expired long enough for macOS to drop it, and a license that stops being valid. The last one shows up as a renewal screen rather than a sign in screen.
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