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# Share a note

> Send someone a link or invite them by email, choose who can see it, and take access away again.

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."*

## 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.

## Who can see it

**Visibility** has four settings:

| Setting                                   | Who gets in                                                       |
| ----------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Private — only you**                    | Nobody else. The starting state                                   |
| **Only people invited**                   | The people you invited by email, and nobody else                  |
| **Everyone at your domain with the link** | Anyone with the link whose email is on your organisation's domain |
| **Anyone with the link**                  | Anyone at all who has the URL                                     |

<Warning>
  **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.
</Warning>

## 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.

## 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.

<Note>
  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](/help/notes/sync-across-devices).
</Note>

## 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](/guides/team-spaces) and
[organise notes with folders](/help/notes/organise-with-folders) for the
one-way-move rule that comes with it.

## Related

* [Sync notes across devices](/help/notes/sync-across-devices)
* [Team Spaces & Sharing](/guides/team-spaces)
* [Where your data goes](/help/privacy/where-your-data-goes)

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