Set up your workspace

Create your account

1. 1Go to workel.com/register. It opens the Welcome to Workel page with Sign up selected.
2. 2Click Continue with Google. Or click Continue with email, fill in Full name, Email address, Password and Confirm password, and click Create account. A password needs at least 10 characters, with a lowercase letter, an uppercase letter and a number.
3. 3If you signed up with email, answer How did you hear about Workel? and click Continue.
4. 4On Verify your email, type the 8-digit code we sent you and click Verify. No email? Click Resend. Skip for now lets you in, but the next time you sign in with your password Workel asks for the code again.

Set up your first workspace

Setup is a few short screens with a progress bar at the top. If someone has already invited you to their workspace, the first screen shows the invitation with Join and Decline.

1. 1Purpose: pick Work, School or Personal and click Continue. This shapes how the workspace is organised and can't be changed later.
2. 2Your work (Work only): choose what you do and, if you like, add your website. Click Skip to leave it.
3. 3Name: type a Workspace name and click Continue. This creates the workspace.
4. 4Project: name your first project, pick a colour, emoji or icon, and add a few tasks if you want. In a School workspace this screen is called Class.
5. 5Setup: choose Just me or With a team. With a team, type your teammates' email addresses and click Send invites & continue. They join as Members (see roles). School workspaces skip this screen.
6. 6Customize: pick a mode, an accent colour, a font and a text size.
7. 7About: tell us how you found Workel and click Finish (or Skip & finish).

Change your theme

Open Settings (the gear at the bottom of the bar on the right) and click the Theme tab. Click a row to change it; changes apply straight away and follow you to your other devices.

• Mode: Light, Dark or System, which follows your computer.
• Color: an accent colour for the interface. There are eight single colours (Neutral, Blue, Purple, Green, Teal, Indigo, Pink and Orange) and three multicolour ones (Spectrum, Aurora and By page).
• Font: Inter, DM Sans or Plus Jakarta Sans.
• Text size: a slider from Smallest to Largest.

Add or switch workspaces

1. 1Click the workspace name at the top left of the sidebar.
2. 2Pick a workspace to switch to it, or click + New workspace to run setup again for a new one.
3. 3Click the star next to a workspace (Set as default workspace) to open it first when you sign in.

• With two or more workspaces, turn on Quick switch in the same menu for a workspace rail on the left of the sidebar.

Get the desktop and phone apps

Workel runs in the browser at app.workel.com, as a desktop app, and on iPhone and Android. Sign in with the same account and everything you see stays in sync as people work: nobody has to refresh.

Get the apps from the download page, or from the Download apps tab in Settings.