Unfold™How to use this space
A short guide to finding your way around, where entries are kept, and keeping a page close for when reaching for it needs to be easy.
Each page in this space is built to work on its own, like a small app, so it can be opened, used and closed without setting anything up. Together they also make a suite, and you can move between them in any order. Nothing needs finishing, and there is no wrong way in.
Getting in
Some tools are open and need nothing at all. The rest ask for your email once, and one sign-up covers all of them. Once you have signed up on a device, that device tends to remember, so you are not asked again each time.
If it does not recognise you, on a new device or after clearing your browser, it will ask for your email again. Enter it, and a short code arrives by email within a minute or two. Type that code in and you are back in. There is no password to create or remember, the email itself is what confirms it is you.
Finding your way around
The Library
Lists every tool and guide in one place, so you can see what is here and pick what suits today.
The side menu
Inside the Unfold book, the menu on the left moves between chapters and jumps straight to the tools. On a phone it opens from the menu button at the top.
My Unfold
Gathers what you have added in the book into one page, with options to print it, save it as a PDF, or copy it as text.
Accessibility options
Text size, contrast and other reading supports are in the accessibility widget in the lower right hand corner of the page. It is there on every page, so you can adjust things to suit you wherever you are.
♡Support
The heart at the top opens support and crisis lines from any page, at any time.
Account & sync
An optional sign-in from the icon at the top. Sign in once, and tools that offer cloud saving can keep your entries the same across your devices. Nothing is signed in by default. This is separate from the email code you use to unlock the access tools below, it only affects whether an individual tool's entries follow you between devices.
Open and close
Sections fold away and open again. Nothing is lost by closing them, and leaving a page and coming back is expected.
Where your entries live
By default, whatever you write or place is saved on the device and in the browser you were using, and nowhere else. Some tools also offer the option to sign in and turn on cloud saving, so entries can follow you to another device, but this is always something you choose, never automatic. A few things are worth knowing either way.
- Without signing in, a different phone, computer or browser will not show your entries.
- With sign-in and cloud saving turned on for a tool, that tool's entries will show up wherever you sign in.
- Signing in is one shared step, done from the account icon at the top, and covers every tool that offers cloud saving.
- Each tool still keeps its own choice about local or cloud, so turning it on for one does not turn it on for all of them.
- Clearing your browser data, or using a private window, can remove locally-saved entries.
- Each tool keeps its own entries for now, and My Unfold gathers what belongs to the book.
- Printing or copying from My Unfold keeps a version of your own.
Keeping a page close
A page can be saved to the home screen or bookmarks so it is one tap away when reaching for it needs to be easy. It tends to help to save the pages you would want on a harder day, rather than the whole site. The shortcut opens the page in your browser, so your saved entries are usually still there. If they seem to be missing, opening the same browser you started in is the first thing to try.
One page or the whole suite
You can save a single tool and use it like its own small app, or move around the suite as a whole. Both are meant to be equally usable. Some people keep one page on the home screen for years and never open the rest, and that counts as using it well.
Tell us what's working
This space is still taking shape. If something felt confusing, or you'd like to see it work differently, a short feedback form is open any time.
Unfold is a reflective, psychoeducational resource and is not a substitute for mental health care. If you are in crisis, contact 000.