# Quick start

## Sign in

Go to [sweethive.com](https://sweethive.com) and sign in with your email (or phone)
and password. SweetHive uses a single sign-on across the whole product family, so the
same account works on the web app, the mobile apps and the satellite products.

On **iOS and Android** the SweetHive app signs you in with the same credentials —
see [Mobile apps](/en/mobile/).

## The home page: My SweetHive

After signing in you land on **My SweetHive**, your personal dashboard:

- **Invitations** — hives you've been invited to; accept to join.
- **Hives** — every hive you belong to, with **Create new** to start your own.
- **Contexts** — quick access to the contexts you use.
- **Connectors** — external services (Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, …)
  you've connected; see [Connectors](/en/connectors/).
- The **activity feed** — messages shared with your groups across all your hives.

## Finding your way around

- The **top bar** shows where you are (hive → context breadcrumb) and hosts
  **Write a message** and **search**.
- The **icon rail** on the left switches between the areas of the current hive:
  Contexts, Groups, People, Apps, Agents, Connectors, Notifications.
- The **message panel** is docked beside the content and always follows the context
  you're in: it shows the feed of the current context subtree.

## Your first steps

1. **Join or create a hive** — accept an invitation, or [create a hive](/en/create-a-hive/)
   with the guided wizard.
2. **Open a context** and read its dashboard: description, sub-contexts, active
   groups, apps, people.
3. **Write a message** — pick the context and the target groups, attach what you
   need, send. See [Messages](/en/messages/).
4. **Install the mobile app** — SweetHive is on the App Store and Google Play; see
   [Mobile apps](/en/mobile/).

## Languages

SweetHive speaks **English, Italiano, Français, Deutsch and Español**. Set your
language in *Settings → Profile → Preferences* — the app (and links to these docs)
follow it.