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Chapter 02 · Create an account

Create an account

Sign up for CorriDraw with email or with Google or GitHub, verify your inbox, and land on the dashboard. The account is optional, but it unlocks cloud sync, sharing, and version history.

CorriDraw works without an account. Open corridraw.com, click (or tap, on a tablet) the Continue without account button, and you can draw immediately — your work saves to the browser's local storage. An account adds three things on top of that: cloud sync across devices, shareable links to anyone you invite, and full version history. This page walks through every way to get one.

Guest mode vs. signed-in

On both /login and /register, the dashed button at the bottom of the card is labelled Continue without account. Click it and you skip straight into the editor on a blank canvas. Anything you draw in guest mode lives only in localStorage on that browser — close the tab and clear site data, and it's gone. The moment you sign in, the dashboard appears at /diagrams and every save is mirrored to the server.

The /register page on desktop. Left panel shows the gradient marketing copy with 'Start creating in seconds' and a feature list. Right panel shows the form with Full name, Email, Password, Confirm password fields, Create account button, divider 'or sign up with', Google and GitHub buttons, and a dashed 'Continue without account' button at the bottom.
Figure 1 — the register page lives at /register. The dashed button at the bottom is the guest-mode escape hatch.

Email and password signup

To get to the form, click Sign up on the homepage hero, or open /register directly. The card is identical on desktop and mobile — on a phone the Google and GitHub buttons stack vertically and the dashed guest-mode button still sits at the bottom. The form takes four fields:

  1. Full name — at least 2 characters. This shows on shared diagrams and comments.
  2. Email — must look like an email and be unique across CorriDraw.
  3. Password — minimum 8 characters. Anything shorter blocks the submit button.
  4. Confirm password — must match the password field exactly.

The password field shows a five-segment strength meter as you type. The meter ranks each password from Very weak to Very strong based on five checks: at least 8 characters, contains an uppercase letter, contains a lowercase letter, contains a number, and contains a special character. Hitting all five turns the meter green. Click the eye icon on the right of the field to reveal what you've typed if you want to double-check before submitting. The minimum to submit is 8 characters — the rest of the checks are guidance, not gates — but a password that flunks multiple checks will get rejected by attackers in minutes, so aim for green.

Close-up of the password field with five colored segments below it. The first three are filled yellow-orange (length, lowercase, and number checks passed), the last two are gray, and the label on the right reads 'Fair'. The eye icon on the right of the field toggles password visibility.
Figure 2 — the strength meter. Five filled segments = Very strong; one segment = Very weak.

Verifying your email

Click the Create account button at the bottom of the form. The card swaps for a "Check your email" panel — we've just sent a one-click verification link to the address you signed up with. The link is good for 24 hours. Click it and the app drops you on the sign-in page — your account is activated, but you still have to enter your email and password once to log in.

  1. Open the email titled Verify your CorriDraw account.
  2. Click Verify email. The browser opens to a confirmation page.
  3. Click Go to sign in and enter the same email and password.

If the email doesn't show up within a couple of minutes, check spam. The "Check your email" card has a Resend verification email button — click it once and a 5-minute cooldown stops you from spamming the queue.

The 'Check your email' card after submitting the register form. A large envelope emoji in a yellow-orange tile sits at the top, with the headline 'Check your email.' below. Body text confirms the address, with two buttons: a gradient 'Go to sign in' primary and a white-bordered 'Resend verification email' secondary.
Figure 3 — verification screen, post-signup. The resend button has a 5-minute cooldown after each press.

Signing up with Google or GitHub

Below the email form on both /login and /register, two buttons sit side by side: a white Google button and a black GitHub button. Click either one to send you over to Google or GitHub to confirm — same tab, same browser, just a quick "Yes, let CorriDraw use my account" screen — then you land back here, signed in. The buttons look the same on the sign-in page and the sign-up page, so pick whichever you started on.

What we receive from each provider:

  • Google — your name, email address, and avatar URL. Nothing else.
  • GitHub — your username, primary email, and avatar URL. We do not request repository or organization access.

Signing up with Google or GitHub skips the verification email entirely. They already confirmed your address, so you bounce straight from the consent screen to the dashboard at /diagrams. If the email on your Google or GitHub account matches an account you already made with a password, we link them together — next time you can sign in either way.

The sign-in-with row on the register card. Two equal-width buttons: left button is white with a colored Google G logo and the word 'Google'; right button is black with a white GitHub octocat logo and the word 'GitHub'. Both buttons have a slight tilt for the hand-drawn style.
Figure 4 — the Google and GitHub buttons. Same layout on /login and /register.

Your first sign-in

Whether you signed up with email or with Google or GitHub, the next time you visit corridraw.com you'll land on the login screen at /login. After successful authentication, the app routes you to the diagram dashboard at /diagrams — every diagram you've created shows up there as a card, grouped by workspace and folder. New accounts arrive with one default workspace called My Workspace and one default folder called Default; both are created on the server during register.

The /diagrams dashboard immediately after first sign-in. The dark left rail shows the Corridraw logo, the user's avatar with their email, 'All Diagrams 0/10' and 'All Workspaces 1/1' counters, and a collapsed 'My Workspace' entry. The main panel header reads 'All diagrams · 0 diagrams · 1 folder' with a search input, and the body holds a single dashed 'New diagram' tile against a soft pink-to-yellow gradient. A bell icon and avatar live in the top-right.
Figure 5 — the dashboard at first sign-in. One workspace, one folder, zero diagrams — yet.

Forgot password

On the login card, click the Forgot password? link under the form. Enter the email tied to your account, click Send reset link, and we'll send a reset link to that address. The link lands on /reset-password/<token>; pick a new password (same rules as signup — minimum 8 characters), confirm it, click Reset password, and you'll be redirected back to login. The reset token is single-use and expires after 1 hour, so request a fresh one if you don't get to it in time.

The forgot-password page at /forgot-password. A white card with pink and yellow washi tape on top corners holds the CorriDraw logo, a 'RESET' badge, the headline 'Forgot password?' and the line 'No worries — enter your email and we'll send a reset link.' Below: an EMAIL input with placeholder 'you@example.com', a gradient 'Send reset link' button, and a small 'Back to sign in' link.
Figure 6 — the forgot-password screen. Reset links expire after 1 hour.

If you signed up with Google or GitHub, you don't have a password to reset — just sign in again with the same Google or GitHub account next time. The forgot-password page politely declines if you only ever signed up that way.

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