Sessions, sign-out and switching accounts

A session is a signed-in connection between an app and your Colli account. You can end the session on the device you are using, revoke an app session from the account page, or switch to a different account.

The Colli account page and Glob are separate sign-in surfaces. Signing out of one can leave the other signed in. Choose the control that matches what you want to finish.

Sign out of Glob for Web or Linux#

To sign out and remove the current account's working copy from the Web app, open Settings → Security → Sign out.

1. Confirm Sign out and delete this account's notes from this browser? They stay on the server.
2. Glob tries to send pending changes before removing the copy.
3. If changes have not reached the service, or a note key exists only on this device, Glob asks again and names what would be lost.
4. Cancel that second question to keep working and resolve sync first. Confirming it discards the remaining unsent work.

This is also the sign-out path to use in the Linux app. Its working copy belongs to that app, separately from any browser where you use Glob.

If you see Close Glob in your other tabs to finish deleting this browser's copy., close those tabs. If the app reports that the copy could not be deleted, follow its instruction to clear the site's data in browser settings after preserving any unsent work.

The Sign out of this browser button under Profile & account settings → Login & security ends the Web sign-in session directly. It does not run the working-copy removal flow above. For a shared computer, use the canvas Settings → Security → Sign out flow and attend to any removal warning.

Lock instead of signing out#

Choose Settings → Security → Lock to require the sync passphrase again. Lock removes the saved unlock key and returns the app to its unlock step. It keeps the account's working copy on this device.

Lock is useful when you want to pause access without deleting that copy. It does not encrypt the stored working copy or sign you out of Colli. Read sync and the device copy for that distinction.

Review app sessions#

Open your Colli account and find Sessions. Each entry shows the device or app name, when the session was created and when it expires. A generic name such as Glob for Web may appear more than once.

Choose Revoke beside an entry to end that app session. Choose Sign out everywhere to end the account's app sessions and Glob Social sign-in grants, and sign out of the account page you are using.

That button does not revoke tool API keys. If a connected tool must stop, freeze or revoke its key. It also does not erase working copies from other devices. Treat another open Colli account page as a separate browser sign-in; the session list is a list of app sessions.

Switch accounts in Glob for Web#

1. Use the app's Sign out flow and preserve any unsent work.
2. On Sign in, enter the other account's email and password.
3. When asked for Sync passphrase, enter that account's sync passphrase.

If you use Apple or Google and Glob keeps opening the previous Colli account, open the Colli account page and choose Sign out there too. Then return to Glob and start sign-in again with the other identity.

Do not enter a different passphrase to try to switch accounts. The signed-in account determines whose work you are opening; the passphrase only opens its encrypted work.

Switching from Glob Social#

After signing out of Glob Social, its signed-out page offers Sign in with a different account. The Colli chooser then offers Continue as the current account or Use another account. The chooser confirms one existing Colli sign-in; it is not a list of every account you have used.

Glob Social also has a sessions page with Sign out of all glob.social sessions. That action applies to Glob Social. It does not sign you out of Colli or private Glob.

For a lost or unfamiliar sign-in, contact [email protected]. The Privacy Policy explains account and device information.