Welcome to Initiative¶
Initiative is a friendly home for your group's projects, tasks, documents, and plans. It's built for teams, clubs, gaming groups, and families who want to stay organized together without wrestling with complicated software.
The main screen, after signing in
Show: the whole app — the guild rail down the far left, the sidebar beside it (the guild's initiatives), and a project board open in the middle.
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New here? Start at the beginning¶
If this is your first time, Getting started is the place to go. It covers creating your account, finding your way around, and joining or creating your first workspace.
Find what you need¶
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Getting started
Create an account, sign in, take the tour, and join your group.
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How Initiative is organized
Guilds, initiatives, projects, documents — what they are and how they fit together.
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Using Initiative
Day-to-day how-to guides for projects, tasks, documents, the calendar, and more.
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Sharing & access
Decide who can see and edit each project and document.
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Security & privacy
What "secure" means for you, and how your group's data stays separate from everyone else's.
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For administrators
Installing, configuring, and looking after your own Initiative server.
For the technically minded — what Initiative is, briefly
Initiative is a self-hosted web application. The interface is a single-page web app; it talks to a Python service backed by a PostgreSQL database. Each group ("guild") gets its own isolated area of the database, and who-can-see-what is enforced inside the database itself, not only in the app. There's a companion mobile app (iOS and Android) for notifications and on-the-go use. More in Security & privacy and the administrator guide.
A note on the words we use¶
Initiative borrows a few everyday words and gives them a specific meaning. The two you'll meet first:
- A guild is a workspace — one separate space for one group of people. Your book club and your work team would be two different guilds.
- An initiative is a folder for a big effort inside a guild. It gathers related projects and documents in one place.
There's a full glossary if you ever hit a word you don't recognize.