Signing In

An account is optional and free. It keeps your spaces in sync across devices, and your guest work comes with you.

Signing in to livehuddle is entirely optional. The space works without an account, so there is never a sign-in wall in front of the editor. An account simply adds something useful on top: it keeps your spaces with you across browsers and devices instead of being tied to one guest identity, unlocks teams, and lets you create API tokens to call the API from your own scripts.

Creating an account

Your livehuddle account is a liveworkspace account: one sign-in for livehuddle, liveplanner, livedocuments and the other liveworkspace apps. Choosing Sign in at the top right of the editor or the Explorer (or opening /sign-in or /get-started) takes you to the liveworkspace sign-in page at liveworkspace.app. Enter your email and we send you a 6-digit code; type it in and you are back in livehuddle, signed in. There is no password, and there is no separate sign-up step: the first time you sign in with an email, that is your account made.

If you are already signed in to another liveworkspace app in the same browser, you are signed in to livehuddle too, without a click: open the editor, the Explorer or the livehuddle home page and your name is already at the top right (on the home page it can take a moment after the page loads). Signing out of any of them signs you out of them all.

Accounts are free, with no paid tier and nothing to upgrade. After signing in from the sign-in page you land on the Explorer to see your spaces; after signing up you land on the New Space flow to start building. If you used the Sign in link in the editor or the Explorer, you go back to where you were instead.

Once you are signed in, your initial and name replace the Sign in link. Click it for the account menu: Account opens the Account category of Settings, where your name, email, Google Drive connection, Trash and Delete Account live, and Sign Out signs you out of livehuddle and of every other liveworkspace app in this browser, then returns you to the home page. The next time you sign in you are asked for a code or Google again, so you can pick a different account. Settings shows the name and email of your account; it does not edit them.

Delete Account removes everything you have in livehuddle, closes your liveworkspace account and signs you out. Closing it signs you out of the other liveworkspace apps too, and you can no longer sign in to them with it.

When sign-in is not working

If sign-in is failing, see Cannot Sign In. You can keep working as a guest in the meantime.

Your guest spaces come with you

The best part of signing up is that you keep the work you have already done. When you create an account, everything you built as a guest comes with it, so nothing is lost.

Before you sign in, new spaces start in This Browser, saved only in this browser. When you sign in, a Move Spaces in This Browser to Your Account? dialog lists every one of them: every one is ticked, so press Move to bring them all across, or untick any you would rather keep in this browser. Not Now leaves them in this browser, and we only ask again when there are more. If one fails to move, it stays in this browser and a follow-up dialog names it. You can also move one any time with Sync Space in the Explorer or the Share dialog. Spaces in This Browser belong to the browser, not to an account, so after you sign out they are offered to whoever signs in next on it.

Anything you already put on the server as a guest (a space you shared, synced, or saved to livehuddle) moves automatically. The migration moves your guest content, including those spaces, folders, your Shared With Me list, favourites, images, shape libraries and saved preferences (unless your account already has its own), from your per-browser guest id over to your new account. From then on, that content is owned by your account and follows you to any browser or device where you sign in.

On sign-up, your guest spaces move from the per-browser id over to your new account.

The process runs the first time you are signed in in a browser that holds guest work, and is safe to repeat: a second attempt simply moves nothing. Once you are signed in, the Explorer's sign-in nudge disappears.

Only the guest id in this browser moves. Guest spaces you made in a different browser or on another device belong to that browser's guest id: open livehuddle there and sign in with the same account to bring them across too. Spaces in This Browser stay in their browser until you move them, because they were never on the server.

Build freely as a guest, then sign up when you want your spaces everywhere. The hand-off is automatic, so there is no manual import to do.

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