Share a page with people, by link, or publicly
Let someone read a page of your own thinking as it reads now, keep up as it changes, and bring it into their own answers.
You can share a page of your own thinking with other people. They read it as you do, the same page with its quotes and figure, and they get its updates as your thinking changes. It isn’t a copy: they always read it as it reads now.
To give a page to the team or one of your groups instead, see Share or move pages to the team or a group.
Share a page
- Open the page and choose Share, just before ⋯ beside its title.
- Type one or more email addresses and choose Share.
Someone who already uses Cranes gets an email and finds the page under Shared in their contents. Someone who doesn’t is invited to join, with the page named in the invitation.
Share appears only on pages of your own thinking. The team’s and a group’s pages belong to everyone there.
Choose who can open the link
Under Who can open the link:
- Only people you add: only the people listed above can open it, once they sign in with that email.
- Anyone in Cranes with the link: anyone signed in to Cranes who has the link can read it and add it to their Shared list.
- Public, in the Library: anyone can read it, even without Cranes, and it’s listed in the Library for everyone in Cranes to find. Cranes asks before making it public.
When a share has a link, Copy copies it.
What they can do with it
A page shared with someone shapes their own answers, in Cranes threads and in the AIs they use, credited to you, when it bears on what they’re asking. It never becomes part of their thinking or your team’s, and it’s never used in a team’s or a group’s answers.
They can also choose Make it yours, which copies it into their own thinking. From then on it’s theirs to change, and it no longer updates from you.
See who has it
The Share popover shows how many people have the page in their Shared list and how many made it their own. It lists the people you added, each with × to stop sharing with them.
When the page changes
Shares follow the page as Cranes rewrites your thinking, the same way your pins and names do. If two pages are combined, the share goes to the one that remains. If one is split, it stays with the half that keeps the page’s name.
Sometimes a share can’t follow: you archive the page, Cranes retires it, or a redraft leaves no clear match. Then the people you shared it with keep its last version, marked as no longer updated, and it stops shaping their answers. It also leaves the Library. To point them to the page that continues it:
- Open Share on the archived page and choose a page under Continue it in…, or
- On Today, under Needs a look, choose the page that continues it.
Stop sharing
Open Share and choose Stop sharing. The link stops opening, and the page leaves everyone’s Shared list. Anyone who already chose Make it yours keeps their copy.
In a team
In a team, sharing pages of your own thinking is off until an owner or admin allows it. If you don’t see Share, ask them. See People and roles on a team.