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title: Guide overview
description: The entry point to the Notochord user guide, in the order "install → get running → use it well".
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# User guide
Read the first two pages in order and you can start working; look up the rest as needed.
1. [Quickstart](/en/guide/quickstart.md) — first-run setup, create your first project, run your first conversation
2. [Organizing work with projects](/en/guide/projects.md) — tables, canvases, files and conversations in one place; publish as a gem
3. [Conversations and sessions](/en/guide/chat.md) — sessions, attachments, tool-call records
4. [Configuring models](/en/guide/models.md) — cloud providers and local GGUF, roles
5. [Gems: installing and using them](/en/guide/gems.md) — install from the store, approve permissions, uninstall
6. [Credentials and connections](/en/guide/credentials.md) — how API keys are stored and how gems use them
7. [Organizations](/en/guide/organizations.md) — keep work and personal data completely separate
8. [Settings reference](/en/guide/settings.md)
9. [FAQ](/en/guide/faq.md)
> Video tutorials are linked from the relevant sections as YouTube links, so they take up no space on the site.