A Space holds one set of people, circles and connections, with its own subscription. Here is how to make one, move between them, and change a Space's name, timezone and circles.

A Space is the container for everything you keep in Longtime: one set of people, circles, connections and occasions, billed by its own subscription. Your login — name, email, password — is your account. A Space is what you open once you are signed in.

Most people only ever need one. A second Space is for keeping two sets of people completely apart — the data in one never appears in the other.

Your Spaces

Choose Spaces from the menu under your name (on a phone, open the menu first) to see every Space you belong to. A Space's owner is whoever started its subscription; only they can manage or end it. Each row shows its name, a short inventory — people, connections, bridges and users — and its state:

"Active" — open and in use.
"Canceling" — the subscription has been canceled. The Space stays usable until the end of the billing period, then it is permanently deleted with everything in it. See Subscription.
"Needs a subscription" — the Space exists but cannot be opened until a subscription starts. If you made it, or you pay for it, subscribe from the list and you go straight to checkout. Anyone else in it is told the owner needs to start the subscription.

Making another Space

Create a Space, give it a name, and pick its timezone. Each Space is a separate $9-a-month subscription and keeps its data separate. The free trial comes once per customer, so once you have used it, a new Space is billed from the start.

Moving between Spaces

With two or more Spaces, a picker appears next to the logo at the top of every page. Choose a Space to go to its dashboard. The logo itself always takes you back to the dashboard of the Space you are in.

Personalization

The gear icon at the top of the page opens Personalization, your Space's settings. It has three parts.

Billing shows the state of the Space's subscription and opens Stripe's billing portal, where you change payment details, see invoices or cancel. See Subscription.

Space information holds the Space's name and timezone. The Space's timezone is its home clock: the interview reads the times you tell it in that timezone, and it decides when a day starts for the Space. See Timezones.

Circles is where you make, rename, recolor and delete circles. See Circles.

How many people a Space holds

A Space holds up to 300 people, and your own record counts as one of them. When you get close, the dashboard and the People page say so. The limit may rise. It will never fall.

Sharing a Space

You cannot invite someone into a Space yourself yet. A Space can have more than one member — the users count on the dashboard and the Spaces list shows how many — and the notes on members in Subscription and Deleting and closing apply to those.

Details

At 300 people, you need to delete someone before anyone new can be added. If you mention someone new while logging a connection, they are kept in Suggestions so you can add them once there is room; adding a new person on their own has to wait.