# People and roles

> Where the people in a family or team live, how to add someone, what each role can do, PINs for the wall display, and the history of who changed what.

Every workspace has one page for the people in it, called **People**. It is
where you add someone, change what they can do, set a PIN, and see who changed
any of that.

## Where People is

**People** sits under the hub in the sidebar, so it opens the
right page for the workspace you are in:

| Workspace | People opens        | Also reachable from                                                                |
| --------- | ------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Family    | **Family → People** | The People card on the family hub, Family settings, the Settings tab called People |
| Team      | **Team → People**   | The Team hub's People tab, the Settings tab called People                          |
| Personal  | **People**          | The Settings tab called People                                                     |

You can also press `⌘ K` (`Ctrl K` on Windows and Linux) and type "people",
"add child", "pin", "roles" or "invite".

In the phone app, People is on the Family screen under **Around the house**, in
the contents list, and as the People tab in Settings.

The Mind keeps its own list of the people, places and projects it has noticed
in your writing. That list is called **Names** and lives inside the Mind. See
[The Mind](https://themarginapp.com/docs/the-mind).

## Adding someone

In a family, press **Add someone**. A child with no email gets
a profile: a name, a face, a role and an optional PIN. Anyone with an email
gets an invitation. In a team, press **Invite**.

Only the workspace owner and admins can add or remove people. Everyone else sees
a sentence saying who can.

## What each role can do

There are three kinds of role, and each answers a different question:

- Your **workspace role** (owner, admin, member) decides who can invite people
  and change settings.
- Your **family role** (parent, partner, caretaker, roommate, child) decides who
  approves chores and moves money.
- A **board role** (owner, editor, viewer) decides what you can do on one board.

Every place you pick a role has a **What each role can do**
link that opens the full list, on the right section.

### Family roles

| Role      | Who it is for                                                   | What it can do                                                              |
| --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Parent    | A parent or step-parent                                         | Approves chores, gives points, pays allowances and sets everyone's role     |
| Partner   | A parent's partner                                              | The same as a parent                                                        |
| Caretaker | A grandparent, sitter or nanny who helps                        | Approves chores, gives points and pays allowances, but can't change roles   |
| Roommate  | A grown-up who shares the home and its costs                    | Approves chores and records money like any grown-up, but can't change roles |
| Child     | Anyone who shouldn't approve their own work, whatever their age | Does chores, earns points and saves, but can't approve chores or move money |

Nobody can raise their own role. The workspace owner and admins can set
anyone's. Someone with no role yet can do what a grown-up can, so give each
child the Child role. Each person's row says in one line what their role lets
them do.

## PINs for the wall display

The [wall display](https://themarginapp.com/docs/the-wall-display) asks for a person's PIN before their
panel opens. On a family's People page, a profile without an account has a
**Set PIN** button on its row (it reads
**Change PIN** once one is set).

## Each person's places

A row ends in links to that person's own places. In a family that is their
kid view (for a child), chores, points and allowance. In a team it is the
workload page and the boards they can open.

## History

A family's People page ends with **History**: who added, invited or removed
someone, and who changed a role or a PIN, newest first. Grown-ups see it;
children don't. A team has the same record, with more in it, on
**Team → Activity**.

## Related

- [Family](https://themarginapp.com/docs/family): the household suite
- [Team Hub](https://themarginapp.com/docs/team-hub): workload, access and activity for a team
- [Sharing and permissions](https://themarginapp.com/docs/sharing-and-permissions): boards, single
  items and connections


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Section: Together. Checked against the running product on October 3, 2026.
Web page: https://themarginapp.com/docs/people-and-roles. Every docs page: https://themarginapp.com/docs/llms.txt