> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.guito.app/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# How spaces work

> What your personal space, the spaces you create and Everything are, what lives in each, what others see and what they never see.

A space is a named place ("Home", "Business") where the accounts you want to see apart, or share with other people, live. You can use one on your own, for example to keep a business's accounts separate from your personal ones, or with other people, for example a couple with a joint account.

## Personal, spaces and Everything

Everyone who uses guito always has a personal space, **Personal**, that only you see. Each space you create or join is a view of its own. A space is **Private** while only the person who created it is in it, and becomes **Shared with** the other person once they join: it is then a shared space. And **All spaces** puts your personal space and every space you have access to together, counting each account once.

At the top of the side menu, the switcher moves between the three views. In each one, the whole of guito (totals, movements, budgets, wealth) shows only what belongs to it.

## What lives where

* **An account lives in one place.** When you put it in a space as a **Space account**, its movements and balance count in the space. Everything counts it once. How much of it counts in each person's personal space is that person's choice (see below).
* **Balance only** is the more discreet option: the account keeps counting in your personal space and members see only the balance, never the movements.
* **Budgets, goals, investments, property and valuables, and credits** can also live in a space. A goal in a space belongs to all its members: everyone sees it and (except Readers) can change it, and it holds money only from accounts that live in that space.
* **Your data stays yours.** Putting an account in a space does not hand it to anyone: the bank connection stays yours alone and you can take the account out whenever you like.
* **Each person chooses how much of a space's account counts in their personal space**, in **My share**: in full, a share or not at all. By default the account counts in full in the personal space of whoever put it in, if the space is shared, and does not count in anyone else's personal space. In a private space, it does not count in your personal space. The space and Everything always count the account in full, once, so your personal space plus the other spaces can add up to more than Everything. Only what that person sees changes.
* **Recurring bills follow their account.** When an account lives in a space with its movements, its recurring bills show to every member in **Recurring** and in the space's **Agenda**.
* **A space has its own categories.** It starts as a copy of the categories of whoever created it adds those of each person who puts an account in, and is managed by the Owner and Managers. Everyone sees movements' categories by name.

## What others see

Joining a space shares nothing of yours. A person only sees what was put in the space. For each account, whoever put it there chooses between movements and balance, or balance only. What other members put in **Space wealth** (investments, property and valuables, and credits) shows only a name and today's value; those values are included in the history of your wealth in the space.

## What is never shared

* Anything you did not put in a space.
* Bank connections: only the person who connected a bank can renew or remove it.
* Conversations with the smart agent.
* Preferences.

## Permissions

| Permission | What it can do |
| - | - |
| **Owner** | Whoever created the space. Does everything a Manager does, can hand the space to someone else, and cannot leave without doing so. |
| **Manager** | Everything a Member does, and also invites people, removes them, changes their permissions and manages the space's categories. |
| **Member** | Sees what is in the space, changes shared movements, shares their own accounts and changes the space's budgets, goals and recurring bills. |
| **Reader** | Sees what is in the space. Changes and shares nothing. |

## Related pages

> [card] [Create a space and switch views](https://docs.guito.app/en/features/spaces-create-and-switch.md)
>
> Create a space and move between your personal space, the new space and Everything.

> [card] [Invite people](https://docs.guito.app/en/features/spaces-invite-people.md)
>
> Invitations, permissions, leaving and removing.

> [card] [Share accounts](https://docs.guito.app/en/features/spaces-share-accounts.md)
>
> Choose what each account shows members.

> [card] [Plan together](https://docs.guito.app/en/features/spaces-plan-together.md)
>
> Budgets, goals, shared movements and My share.

> [card] [Put wealth in a space](https://docs.guito.app/en/features/spaces-shared-wealth.md)
>
> Investments, property and valuables, and credits.


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