Skip to content

Sign in

The first time you run Retrace, signing in is the second screen of the setup tab the extension opens for you — see First run. You do not go looking for it, and it is the moment Retrace starts remembering.

After that, the Sign in button lives in Retrace's own overlay on whatever page you're already on — that is the door for signing back in, or for switching accounts. Either way you are not sent to a separate tab.

What happens behind the scenes

  1. Retrace opens a Sauvrn sign-in window (Google or email).
  2. When you finish signing in, that window closes on its own.
  3. The extension exchanges the sign-in code for a license token and stores it. You stay on the page you started from.

That token is re-checked every six hours, and each check extends it. As long as those checks keep succeeding, your extension stays licensed without any further clicks.

You can also connect from the Sauvrn web app instead — open your dashboard and click Connect next to Retrace. That route hands the token over from a web-app tab, which then tells you it is done; close the tab yourself when it does.

Switching workspaces

If you belong to more than one Sauvrn workspace, you pick the one you want in the Sauvrn web app, not in the extension. The extension has no workspace picker — it uses whichever workspace was active when its token was minted.

Open the web app, use the Workspace selector in the dashboard's left sidebar (it appears only when you belong to more than one), then click Connect to mint a token for that workspace's license.

I lost my license

Go to your dashboard in the Sauvrn web app and click Connect again. The web app will issue a fresh token. Minting a new token does not revoke the old one — signing out of the web app does, and it revokes every token you hold. The extension itself has no reconnect button; it shows Sign in, which opens the in-page flow above.

If the Connect button is missing or you see "Your license was revoked," see Troubleshooting: License.