Arriving

Someone invited you, or you started an archive of your own - either way you now have a Storyus account, and it opens into a collective: a family's own private place, with its own stories, its own people, and its own front door at +its-name. Everything you'll ever do here happens inside one.

Every new account also belongs to +demos - a show-home collective where one real family trip is told in every form Storyus has. We'll use it for examples throughout this guide.

The header is home base

The black bar at the top follows you everywhere, and reads left to right the way you'll use it: the collective you're in (its +name), Search, then the two main ways in - Stream (the everyday feed) and Browse (the whole archive). After that come tools that appear only if your role unlocks them: Create for members and up, and Admin for the people running the place. Far right is you.

storyus.life/+demos/$browse

That menu is your personal layer, and it's the same in every collective: My Profile (your public face), My Views (a reading home that builds itself - it gets its own chapter), My Bookmarks (yours alone), Settings, and Sign Out.

You may belong to more than one

Collectives are separate worlds: your family's, perhaps a grandparent's, plus +demos. Each one gives you a role - guest, outer circle, inner circle, member, admin or owner - and your role can differ from collective to collective. The role decides two things: how much you can see (the next chapter) and whether you can create (members and up - that's the whole second track of this guide).