Getting an account

Signing up happens at account.ctxr.app and is as simple as entering your email address. If no account exists for it yet, one is created on the spot: a six-digit code arrives by email, you confirm it, and you’re done. From then on that address is simply how you sign in — there is no password to choose or forget. Each time you log in, the platform emails you a fresh six-digit code; you type it in, and you’re through. Your browser then holds on to a session so you’re not asked again until it expires or you log out.

Two doors, one identity. You can create an account on its own here, with no site involved. You can also skip straight to making a space at onboard.ctxr.app — onboarding sets up an account for you along the way. Either route, your email is the anchor: the same address is always the same account. Signing in to onboard, account or any space itself is a separate step with its own code — your account and your spaces are deliberately kept as distinct layers. Why they’re kept apart, and why you can edit a space without a platform account at all, is explained in Separate sign-ins.

Your dashboard

Once you have an account you get a dashboard — a single overview of every website you’re involved with. For each one it shows the site’s name, the plan it’s on, and your role there: whether you own it, edit it, or merely follow it. From this one screen you move between sites without signing in to each separately. The difference between owning, editing and following is explained in Owning vs following.

One account, many sites

Because the platform already knows you, starting a second site is quick — you won’t repeat the email verification, you just name the new site and it appears on your dashboard. This is why the account exists as its own layer: it answers “who are you?” once, so nothing downstream has to ask again.

Your email is how you sign in, not who you are. Behind the scenes your identity is anchored to a stable account id, so you could even use a work address for one site and a personal one for another and still be the same person to the platform. The full reasoning lives in What is an account.

Next step

You have an identity. Now you need a place to actually build something — a space of your own. That’s the next step: Onboarding a space.