Getting started

This page covers signing in, the welcome document you land on the first time, and creating and finding documents.

Signing in with Google

Google is the only sign-in method. Click Sign In and authorize with your Google account. There is no password to set and no separate account to create. Your session is kept in secure cookies, so you stay signed in across visits.

Your welcome document

On your first sign-in, Squire Docs creates a personal "Welcome to Squire Docs" document that you own. You land on it with the AI assistant panel open, and the assistant greets you and offers to research a topic. The document itself shows how the pieces of Squire Docs fit together and how to connect coding agents over MCP. Each user gets their own copy of this document. Nothing about it is shared.

You keep landing on the welcome document each time you sign in until you are "engaged", which means you own another document that has content in it. Once you are engaged, later sign-ins take you to your document list instead.

Creating documents

Create a document from the document list. A new document opens in the editor with a title field at the top and the formatting toolbar below it. Press Tab from the title to move focus into the document body.

You can also create documents from the AI assistant by asking it to, and external agents can create them over the Model Context Protocol. See Agents and MCP.

Finding documents

The document list shows the documents you can access. Each row shows when you last opened it and carries badges for sharing: green means a document shared with you, purple means a document you shared with others. A three-dot menu on each row offers Share and Delete.

The list refreshes on its own every five seconds and when you return to the browser tab. You can also click the document icon next to the "Documents" title to refresh it.

To find a document by its contents rather than its title, use the search box on the document list. See Search.