Sharing and mentions

Public links

Open a note, use the share control, and create a link. Choose how it ends:

• On a date — the link stops working then.
• After N views — it burns out once used up.
• Never — until you revoke it.

Anyone with the link can read the note, with no account. A link can also grant editing.

Expired and exhausted links are tidied up by a background job rather than lingering; you can revoke any link by hand at any time from the note’s share menu.

Sharing with someone on your server

Share directly with another account and the note appears in their Shared with me. They get exactly what you granted — view or edit — and it ends when you revoke it.

Either way, the note’s card in your grid carries a badge showing it has left the vault, with the names on hover. This is on the card rather than two clicks away on purpose: “who else can read this one” is the question the whole product is built around.

Mentions give away one paragraph

Type @ and a username. The block you named them in — that paragraph, not the note — is delivered to their Inbox.

Papyra then asks whether you also want to share the whole note:

• No — the paragraph is genuinely all they can see. They cannot open the note.
• Yes — they can open the note until you revoke it from the share menu.

The default is the narrow one.

If the source note is later deleted or locked, the inbox entry says so plainly instead of showing stale text. The grant is scoped to that block, so there is nothing else it could fall back to.

Locked notes never leave

A Vault note is never shareable and never delivers a mention, whatever you type in it. There is no setting to override this. If you need to share something that lives in a locked note, move it to an unlocked one first.

Wiki links are not sharing

[[double bracket]] links and Linked mentions are navigation within your own vault. Linking to a note gives nobody access to it, and a shared note’s links to notes you have not shared simply will not resolve for the recipient.

Smart collections

A collection is a saved rule, not a folder: everything tagged work and pinned, or anything whose text mentions pricing. Build the rule in the UI and the collection stays current as you write.

Notes are not moved or copied into a collection, so a note can be in several at once, or none. Collections are private to you and are not shared by sharing a note.

Revoking

Everything is revocable, and revocation is immediate:

• A link — the note’s share menu.
• A person’s access — the same place.
• A mention — the recipient dismisses it from their Inbox, which drops the grant.

Once revoked, the next request from that link or person is refused. There is no grace period, and nothing is cached on their side that would keep working.