You open Sayli for the first time. You pick a sign-in method, and a few seconds later you are in. Three ways in, and you can use whichever you already trust.
Sign in with an account you already have
Continue with Google, or with Apple. The Apple button appears on Macs and other Apple devices. Nothing new to create, and nothing new to remember.
Or get a code by email
Enter your email and Sayli sends you a six-digit code. Type it back and you are in. Most people stop here.
Not "we do not recommend one". There is no password on a Sayli account to set, forget, reuse, leak or reset, because the credential does not exist. The three methods above are the only ways in.
Nothing to sign in with travels by URL either. The code is typed, so a forwarded email is not a way into your account unless somebody also has it within ten minutes and uses it before you do.
One email, one account
Whichever door you use, the address is the account. Sign in with Google today and a code tomorrow and you land in the same workspace, with the same meetings and the same subscription.
From the desktop app, it hands back to the app
When you sign in with Google or Apple from the desktop app, the flow completes
through a secure sayli:// handoff that returns you to the app. You confirm in
your browser, and the app takes it from there. A code needs no browser at all:
you type it straight into the app.
You stay signed in across restarts
Your session lives in the operating system's credential store. Close the app, restart your machine, and you are still signed in when you come back.
On Linux that store is the desktop keyring. If no keyring is installed, Sayli
will not write your session to disk at all, because the fallback Chromium
offers there is plaintext with extra steps. The cost is signing in on each
launch. Installing gnome-keyring or kwallet fixes it. See
What each platform delivers.
If a friend referred you, your referral is claimed the first time you sign in. Nothing extra to enter.