What is Pubky?
Pubky lets you own your identity and your data online with a key that's yours — no account with any company. On TimechainWiki it's one of two ways to sync your highlights and notes across your devices.
The idea
Instead of a username and password held by a company, your identity is a key — a bit like a username nobody can take away or lock you out of. Your data lives on a homeserver: a small personal server you control, or a hosted one that you can pack up and move at any time.
Apps ask your permission to read or write, and you approve from your phone. It's built by Synonym, the team behind the Bitkit wallet — the same self-custody idea, applied to your online identity.
How it works here
When you sign in with Pubky and highlight a passage, your highlight and note are saved to your own homeserver — under a folder for this site — not to us. We never see or store them. Open TimechainWiki on another device, sign in, and your highlights are right there.
Get set up
- Install Pubky Ring on your phone (Android or iPhone). It holds your key and approves logins — think of it as a hardware key for the web.
- Open it and create your pubky (your identity), then back it up. The app sets you up with a homeserver to store your data.
- Come back here, click Sign in, and under Pubky choose Approve in Pubky Ring. On a computer you'll scan a QR code; on your phone the app opens directly.
- Approve read + write for this site. That's it — your highlights now sync.
On your phone, "Approve in Pubky Ring" opens the app directly. On a computer, you scan the on-screen QR code with Pubky Ring to approve.