Quickstart

In five minutes you will sign in, get a personal workspace, and create your first page.

Sign in with Microsoft

1. Open orbit.sprocket365.com.
2. Click Login with Microsoft.
3. Sign in with your Microsoft work or school account.

There is no separate Orbit account or password. At sign-in, Orbit asks Microsoft for exactly two permissions: reading your profile and access to files you can already access. Every other permission is requested later, at the feature that needs it — see the permissions model.

Note

If your organization requires admin consent for new apps, Orbit shows an approval link to send to your Microsoft 365 admin. After the one-time approval, sign in again.

Get your personal workspace

After your first sign-in, Orbit asks you to Set up your personal workspace:

1. Keep the name My Workspace or type your own, pick an icon, and choose what you’ll use it for (Notes & ideas, Projects & goals, Meetings & 1:1s, Learning, or Blank). Orbit adds a few starter folders for that, next to the Getting Started guide.
2. Optionally bring in existing content: a OneNote notebook, a Confluence space, or Markdown Files or a Folder from your computer. Then click Create workspace.

Click Skip for now to go straight in with the defaults. Either way, Orbit creates an Orbit folder in your OneDrive. Every page you write there is a markdown file you own, and nothing is shared until you share it.

If you opened Orbit from a shared link, you see what was shared first; the setup appears when you’re back on the home page. If you close the tab before finishing, it simply appears again next time.

Create your first page

1. In the sidebar, find the Pages header at the top of the file tree — the New (+) button is the first of the action buttons to the right of the title.
2. Click New (+), then choose New page.
3. Name the page and start typing.

📷 Screenshot here: The sidebar with the + New menu open under the Pages header, showing New page, New page from template, New folder, New drawing, and New list.

The same menu also creates folders, drawings, and lists — and New page from template starts a page from a template in one step.

Your content saves automatically — there is no save button.

Choose your path

• Using Orbit for yourself? Continue the course: Core concepts.
• Setting up a team wiki? Jump ahead to Create a team workspace, then come back.

Up next: Core concepts — the eight terms the rest of the docs build on.