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User handbook
Using your cloud: the web app, the terminal app and the command line are one thing, and every how-to here shows all three.
Every how-to here is shown three ways: the web app, the terminal app and the command line. Pick one on any example and the whole handbook follows, until you pick another. On a phone, swipe across an example.
1What it doesOne server, your data, the apps around it, and every device.
2Three ways inSigning in from a phone, a terminal or a shell, adding a device, and where things are.
3The web appOn a phone, in a browser and on a computer: Today, the tabs, Me, and the home screen.
4The terminal appThe workspace in a terminal: cards, the mouse, and every key.
5The desktop appThe web app in a window of its own, with what a browser tab cannot do.
6QuillsAdding software from the catalog, using it on every surface, and Quills of your own.
7Two switches on every featureWhat is on for the server, and what is on for you.
8CirclesWho may use which data, and how you are placed.
9Roles, approvals and flowsWho is responsible for what, a yes or a no asked of them, and the procedures you build out of quills' actions.
10Snapshots and attestationsA frozen copy of the books at year end, with a digest, and your accountant's signed word on it — checked by anybody, with no server at all.
11Files and sharesYour own drive, shares made and shared with people and circles, and mounting them.
12SecretsKeys and passwords in vaults, on every surface.
13Push notificationsWhat reaches your phone, and when.
14An assistant working as youWhat an assistant may do on your behalf, and what it is never given.
15Your machinesThe agent on each machine you sign in from, and what it may do there.