Share privately. Comment. Edit together.

Share a note with a person, not the public web.

Share a document directly with someone by their email and it arrives as an invitation — an email, a card in their inbox, and a row in their Shared with you — and nothing opens until they press Accept. Decline it and it is removed from their vault; decline the same sender twice and they can choose Decline and stop shares from this person, which withdraws what was sent and stops any more arriving. No link to leak, nothing public. They need their own account to see it, and we never reveal whether an email is signed up, so sharing gives nothing away.

Choose what each person can do, and change it any time:

• Read. They see the document, typeset for reading. Nothing more.
• Comment. They can select a passage and pin a note or a question to it — the comment carries a quote of the passage and follows it as the document is edited — a conversation about the work, kept separate from the work itself.
• Edit. The document opens for them exactly like one of their own — same page, same editor. There is only ever one copy, so you both always see the latest.

Every change is captured against the document — who made it and when — and you can both look back through the whole history and restore an earlier version. If two people reach for it at once, nobody's work gets quietly overwritten: the second save is held back and asked to Reload first.

When a document someone shared with you is open, 1Presence can help with it too — read it, summarise it, or, if you have editing rights, make changes — just like any of your own notes. Its edits are captured in the same shared history, so the other person sees exactly what changed and when.

Your notes link to each other, and those links keep working when you share. If a document you have shared points to another you have also shared with the same person, the link is live — they can click straight through. Links to anything you have not shared simply stay as plain text, so following a link never opens a door to the rest of your vault — and once a share goes through, the share sheet offers to share the notes it links to, so the reader is not left at a dead end. Share a set of connected notes and they read like a small, self-contained site; share one and it stands alone.

Change anyone's access, or stop sharing entirely, whenever you like — and a globe or a people mark beside each file in your vault shows what is shared, and how, without opening it. A dashboard shares by name the same way — view or edit — and stays live for whoever you share it with. For sending something to the world rather than a named person, a one-tap public link is there too — typeset for reading, with a social preview, revocable any time. And when it is a whole company sharing rather than one person, 1Presence for Teams extends this same by-name sharing across an organisation.