Setting up your workspace

There is no account to create and no sign-up. The first time you open BooshHUB it makes a workspace and you are in it.

The workspace is a file

Everything structured — clients, deals, projects, tasks, invoices — goes into a single SQLite database on your own machine. Your documents stay where they already are: attach a folder or a Drive link to a record and the app stores the pointer, not a copy.

That is worth knowing on day one because it decides how you back things up. See Where your data lives for the paths and the backup layers.

Local or synced

A workspace runs local by default, which is the right choice if it is only ever you. Switching it to synced lets a second machine or a colleague reach the same data.

A snapshot is taken automatically before sync is enabled and before it is turned back off, so the switch is reversible either way.

Set your working hours first

Settings → Schedule is where you say which hours of which days you actually work. It looks like housekeeping and it is not: it is the capacity figure that the over-capacity warnings and the whole auto-scheduler are measured against.

Set it honestly rather than aspirationally. A week described as 60 hours will cheerfully accept 60 hours of work.

Add your sending identities

If you want mail inside the app, Settings → Email takes one or more IMAP and SMTP identities. Several is normal — a studio address, a personal one, one for a brand you run separately. Each is a persona, and mail is matched to the client it belongs to regardless of which one it came through.

Credentials are encrypted with the operating system’s own secure store and are machine-bound, so copying the database to another computer does not carry them with it. You re-enter them once on the new machine, by design.

What to do next

Add a client and give it something to do: Your first client, deal and project.