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Sharing publishes a single note so other people can read — or edit — it. It’s a per-note decision: nothing is shared until you share it. Sharing notes requires a paid plan. On the Free plan the dialog will tell you: “Sharing notes requires a paid plan.”

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Sharing one

Open the note and choose Share. If the note has never been synced, you’ll be asked to sync it first — “Sharing keeps a copy of this note in your OpenWhispr cloud. Only you can see it until you choose who to share it with.” Choose Sync note to continue. That’s unavoidable: a note that exists only on your laptop can’t be opened by anyone else. Then either:
  • Invite people by email — type an address and send. They get an invitation, shown as Pending until they accept and Has access afterwards.
  • Create link — produces a URL you can paste anywhere, governed by the visibility setting below.

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Who can see it

Visibility has four settings:
Anyone with the link means anyone — links get forwarded, pasted into tickets, and indexed if they end up somewhere public. For anything sensitive, use Only people invited, which ties access to an identity you chose rather than to knowledge of a URL.

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What people can do

Each person you invite is either:
  • Can view — read only
  • Can edit — read and change the note
The Owner is you, and that doesn’t transfer.

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Taking access away

In the same dialog, use Remove on a person to revoke their access, or set Visibility back to Private — only you to close it off entirely. You can also Resend invite if someone never received theirs — there’s a short cool-down, so if you hit “Invitation sent recently. Try again in a minute,” that’s what it is.
Shared notes keep syncing to the cloud even if you later turn Cloud backup off — sharing is its own consent. To stop that, unshare the note. See sync across devices.

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Sharing with a whole team instead

If you’re repeatedly sharing notes with the same people, a team space is the better instrument — everyone in the space sees its folders and notes without per-note invitations. See Team Spaces & Sharing and organise notes with folders for the one-way-move rule that comes with it.