onelinkAccounts and claiming
An account is optional. It buys you one thing today: lists you own without having to keep a secret URL safe.
Signing in
There are no passwords anywhere. You give an email address, we send a one-time link, you click it, you are signed in.
The link works once and expires after 10 minutes. Asking for a new one invalidates nothing else — just use the newest email.
Both pages say “check your inbox” regardless of whether the address is registered. That is deliberate: a different response would let anyone test whether you have an account here.
About the username
3–30 characters, letters, numbers, dashes and underscores. It is stored lowercased, so Ada and ada are the same name and only one person can have it — but the capitalisation you typed is what gets shown.
It does nothing yet beyond being yours. It exists for a future public profile page.
Claiming a list
If you made a list anonymously and want it under your account, open its edit page and follow Claim this page. If you are not signed in, you will be sent to log in first and returned to the claim afterwards — the claim survives the round trip through email.
Claiming sets you as the owner and destroys the secret token. See secret links for what that changes.
A list can only be claimed once. If someone else got there first, you will be told, and the list stays theirs.
Lists you create while signed in skip all of this — they are yours from the moment you publish, and never get a secret token at all.
Your lists and settings
/account lists everything you own. /account/settings lets you change your name and username.
Changing your email takes two steps, and the first confirmation goes to your current address, not the new one. That is on purpose: if someone else got into your session, they still cannot move your account to an inbox you do not control. Once you approve from the old address, we verify the new one, and only then does it change.