Quickstart

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

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 creates your personal workspace automatically — you’ll briefly see Setting up your personal OneDrive workspace…. This creates an Orbit folder in your OneDrive; every note you write there is a markdown file you own. Nothing is shared until you share it.

Create your first note

1. In the sidebar, find the Notes 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 note.
3. Name the note and start typing.

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

The same menu also creates folders, drawings, and lists — and New note from template starts a note 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.