Invite people

Where you invite someone decides what they can read:

• To your team: they read and add to Everyone, and get their own Just me there.
• To a group: they read and add to that group only.
• To Cranes: they start with their own, empty thinking. Nothing of yours is shared with them.

Every invitation link lasts 14 days.

To your team

Owners and admins invite people to a team.

1. Open Settings › People. From Everyone, the People icon then Invite and manage people gets you there too.
2. Under Invite someone, type their email. If you’re the owner, choose whether they join as a Member or an Admin.
3. Choose Invite.

Someone who already has a Cranes account joins at once and gets an email saying you added them. Anyone else gets an email naming you and the team, with a link to sign up.

Invitations waiting are listed under Invited, not joined yet. Choose Send again for a fresh link, or Withdraw to stop the link working, which also cancels their invitations to the team’s groups. Only the owner can send again or withdraw an admin’s invitation.

If your team has verified its email domain, people with that domain can join it themselves from the workspace menu.

To a group

Any member of a group can add people.

1. Open the group under Places, then choose the People icon.
2. Type their email, or in a team, a teammate’s name.
3. Choose Invite, or Add for a teammate.

In a team, a teammate joins the group at once. Owners and admins can also invite someone who isn’t on the team yet: they’re invited to the team and the group together, and the invitation shows as Invited with the team. Send it again from Settings › People.

In your personal workspace, someone who already uses Cranes joins at once and gets an email saying you added them. Anyone else gets an email inviting them to the group, and joins when they sign up. Either way, the group shows in their personal workspace marked guest. Whoever started the group, or whoever invited them, can choose Send again or Withdraw beside a waiting invitation.

To Cranes, for their own thinking

Anyone who uses Cranes can invite someone. They skip the waitlist.

1. At the top left, choose the workspace’s name, then Invite people. It’s also in Settings › Invite people.
2. Type their email. Or, if you don’t have it, choose Get a link instead and send the link yourself.
3. If you like, add A few words (up to 280 characters). They’re shown on the invitation with your name.
4. Choose Send invitation.

They get an email called “Your name invited you to Cranes”. Its button opens the invitation, with your words above the form where they create their account.

Your invitations are listed under Invited on the same page, as Invited, Joined, or Link expired. Choose Copy link to copy a link you haven’t sent yet, Send again (or Renew link) for another 14 days, or Withdraw to stop it working.