Accounts and sign-in

ArchOverflow has no passwords. You sign in with your email.

Click Sign in in the bar at the top of any page.
Type your email and click Email me a sign-in link.
Open the email and click the link, or type the code from the email into the boxes on the sign-in page. Either one works.

If the link opens on a different device than the one you started on, click Sign in on the page it opens to finish signing in there.

Create an account #

Creating an account works the same way as signing in. Type an email that isn't on an account yet, and the link makes a new account for it.

The first time you sign in, a welcome page asks for a display name and a handle. Both are optional, and you can change them later on your account page. See Profile and avatar.

What an account opens #

The library. Every account can read every article at resources.archoverflow.com in full. See The library.
The tools. Starting your own projects and work in the tools comes with tool access, which is invite-only for now. Your account page shows which you have under Access.
Projects shared with you. Anyone who adds you to a project lets you work on that project's schemes, with or without tool access of your own. See Guest collaborators.

Ask for tool access #

Open your account page: click your avatar at the right end of the bar, then Profile & account.
Click Request access, either in the Get started card or next to Access in your profile.
Say which tools you want and why, then send it.

We email you when your tools are on. Signed out, the Join free form on the home page makes your account and sends the request in one step.

Before you have access #

Every tool still opens. Without tool access, a tool opens as a locked sample: you can look around and try a template, but you can't save your own work.

Sign out #

Click your avatar at the right end of the bar, then Sign out. To sign out a different device, use Where you're signed in.