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Your Account

Signing Up#

Creating an account is done by clicking the user icon in the top right corner of the screen and selecting the Need to sign up? link, and you can then enter your name, email, and a password. Alternatively, you can create an account using your existing Facebook, Twitter, or Google credentials if the instance has enabled those connections.

Account Verification#

After you’ve first created an account on a Manifold instance, you will receive an email from the system asking you to confirm your email address by clicking on a link in that message.

If you no longer have the email from the system—or if you are an existing user who needs to verify for the first time—you can have a new verification email sent. To do so, navigate to the user icon on the far right on the main menu at the top of the screen and select Edit Profile from the dropdown. That will open your account’s profile page. At the top of the profile page select the button labeled Resend Verification Email. Manifold will then dispatch a new verification link to the email address associated with your account.

Don’t Sleep on Verifying Your Account!

You need to confirm your email address before the system will allow you leave public annotations or comments or create public reading groups. This is true for new users as well as existing users. Until you verify your email you will only be able to make private annotations or create and engage in private reading groups.

Signing In#

You sign in to a Manifold instance by clicking on the user icon in the top right corner of the screen. The system will prompt you for your account’s email and password. Once you are signed in, user profile settings, such as nickname, user profile image, first name, last name, email, and password, can be accessed and changed from by clicking user icon in the top right corner and selecting "Edit Profile" from the dropdown menu. From this screen you can also modify your notification settings.

Edit Profile#

Once you have created a Manifold account, you have the opportunity to edit your profile by selecting the user icon on the far right of the menu bar and choosing Edit Profile from the dropdown. Doing so will open a modal window showing your current account information and the means to update it with the following fields:

  • Nickname. Your user nickname is not displayed anywhere in Manifold. It will not be associated with your annotations or comments nor in reading groups of which you are a part. Instead, this is the name by which Manifold will refer to you in any notification emails it directs to your inbox.
  • Profile Image. The field for your profile image allows you to drag and drop or select from your file system an image in GIF, JPEG, JPG, or PNG format. Your profile image displays in the user icon location in the menu as well as beside your name in the annotation drawer, in the notes dropdown in the Manifold reader, and in reading group listings. If you opt not to include have a profile image associated with your account, only your first and last names will display in the listed areas.
  • First and Last Name. Both first and last name fields are required by Manifold. Your first and last names display with your annotations and comments in the annotation drawer, in the notes dropdown in the Manifold reader, and in reading group listings.
  • Email. This is the email address to which Manifold will direct any updates or notifications to you. For those users who are not using OAuth (Google, Facebook, Twitter) to sign in, this email will also serve as your means for logging into Manifold.
  • Password and Confirm Password. These two fields provide the means to enter and confirm a new password.

Any adjustments made on this screen will only be committed to the system after selecting the Save Changes button. Once selected any adjustments that have been made will take effect immediately.

From this view you can also gain access to your Notification and Privacy Settings using the buttons at the bottom of the screen. Both of those views are also available from the user dropdown.

Notification Preferences#

Using the Notifications settings, Manifold readers can have the system send either a daily or weekly email that summarizes any new Texts, Resources, or Resource Collections that have been added to Projects they are following. Daily notifications will be dispatched every day at 6:00 a.m. and weekly notifications every Sunday at 6:00 a.m (per the time the server is set to).

Additionally, readers can opt to have Manifold send an email in real time when a reply has been made to one of their annotations or comments.

Notification settings can be accessed and adjusted from the user icon dropdown in the top right corner of the screen or by clicking on the Notification Settings button at the bottom of the Edit Profile screen.

Readers, Project Creators, or Marketeers who have permissions to modify specific Projects in the backend can opt to receive notification in realtime of all comments and annotations made to those projects by selecting Yes to “Notify You of All Comments and Annotations.”

Likewise, users who have either Editor or Administrator roles who select that option will be notified of all comments and annotations in realtime for all Projects on the instance.

When enabled, notifications will be triggered by the following events:

  • Public annotation created
  • Public annotation updated with new text
  • Private annotation converted to public annotation

Administrators, alone, also have the option to be notified of flagged comments in realtime.

Account Deletion#

As of version 8.0, users have the ability to delete their Manifold account from the Privacy Settings screen. To access this view, select Privacy from the user icon dropdown in the main menu. This will open a modal with two sections: Cookies and Account Data. If you select the Delete My Account button beneath the Account Data heading, your account, including all of your entitlements, annotations and comments, and reading group memberships will be destroyed. No personally identifiable information of yours would remain in our system.

However, any projects, texts, resources, journals, or collections you created would persist and be available for site administrators to edit or assign to other users to manage.

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