> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.arkhub.co/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Quick start

> Sign in, make a repository and add your first records in a few minutes

This guide takes you from the home map to a repository filled with records. You need an account for step 2 onwards.

**1. Sign in**

Open [app.arkhub.co](https://app.arkhub.co) and click **Sign in**. Use Google, X or an email link. Then choose a username and fill in your profile.

**2. Create a repository**

In the sidebar, click **Create Repository**. A new repository opens on its **Data** tab. Give it a name and, if you want, a description from its header.

**3. Add records**

The Data tab searches all of Arkhub. Type a place or a region. Narrow the matches by kind, region, country or period. Click **Add all**, or add records one at a time.

You can also:

* **Pick on the map**: draw over areas and add every record in them.
* **From another repository**: start from someone else's repository and keep the records you need.
* **By rule**: choose record types, kinds, regions, countries or periods, and add every record that fits.

**4. Look at your data**

Open the **Table** tab. Click **Edit properties** to add fields, or **Fill the table** to add a set of fields for your background in one go. Add a **Timeline** or a **Gallery** view with the **+** next to the tabs.

**5. Explore the map**

Click the small map in the corner of the repository, or choose **Explore map** from the repository's menu in the sidebar. The map flies to your records. Filter them with the chips over the map.

## Key concepts

> **Records**
>
> A record is one place, object, civilization, person, event or culture. It has a type and a kind (a temple, a stone circle, a sword). It holds facts (its location, its sizes), tags for grouping, claims with sources, images and a history of every change.

> **Claims and challenges**
>
> A dating, an attribution, a purpose or an alignment is a claim. Each claim says how it was established and who makes it, and cites its sources. Contributors can challenge a record: add a claim or object to one, with reasons and sources. Your challenges together form your version of the record.

> **Repositories**
>
> A repository is your collection of records. It starts with a Data tab, where you add records. Then you study them in table, timeline, gallery and map views. A repository is public or private.

> **Posts**
>
> Posts are articles. Write them in the editor, link records into them, and publish them on your profile and on Discover.

## Common workflows

### Study a set of sites

**1. Create a repository**

One repository per question, such as "Stone circles of Scotland".

**2. Add by rule**

In the Data tab, pick the kind and the region, and add every record that fits.

**3. Fill the table**

Pick the field set for your background. Add claims such as datings as columns.

**4. Compare versions**

Show the table as one researcher's version, and compare it with the consensus.

### Document a place you study

**1. Create the record**

Creating records needs Contributor access. Apply from the Create record button; we review every application by hand.

**2. Add its parts**

Add the features inside the place and set what each is part of. Arkhub works out the levels.

**3. Add claims with sources**

Add a dating and an attribution, each with how it was established and the source that backs it.

**4. Write it up**

Publish a post that links to the record.

## Search

Press **⌘K** (Ctrl+K on Windows) anywhere to search records, repositories, people and posts. Filter by kind, record type, creator, official records only, or an age range. Press **⌘↵** to open a result in a new tab, or **⌘L** to copy its link.

## Next steps

> **[Records](/essentials/records/records.md)**
>
> Record types, the record page, claims, history and privacy

> **[Repositories](/essentials/repositories.md)**
>
> The Data tab and every view

> **[Map](/essentials/map.md)**
>
> The home map, repository maps and measuring

> **[Posts](/essentials/publishing.md)**
>
> Write and publish articles

> [!NOTE]
>
> **Need help?** Ask in the [Discord](https://discord.gg/N7JErfYByk).


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