Publish public notes with reviewed snapshots

PUT IT TO WORK

Step by step

1. Sign in at /notes/ and open a note that you own. Finish editing and allow the current change to save.
2. Choose Public sharing in the editor footer. Review the exact title and text shown in the publishing dialog.
3. Confirm that you have the right to share the material and that the visible content contains no private information. Publish only after reviewing the complete snapshot.
4. Use the public link to let another person read the snapshot without signing in. It can also appear in the shared search collection.
5. When your draft changes, deliberately publish an updated snapshot if you want readers to receive the new text. Use Unpublish when the snapshot should no longer be available.

A public snapshot is not your entire workspace

Publishing exposes the reviewed title, text and public author alias. It does not expose your other private notes, folders, account sessions or optional activity history. Review the note itself carefully: a password, address or private comment written inside it would be part of the published text.

A shared original can be read and opened in another person's workspace. If that person changes its title or text and saves, Folio creates their private version rather than rewriting your published original.

Private drafts and publication updates

Ordinary autosave records your private working changes. It is not permission to publish those changes. A separate review and publishing action updates the public snapshot. This distinction is useful for checklists, instructions and study notes that need a stable public edition while you revise the next one.

Moving a note to the trash withdraws its publication. Unpublishing removes future access through the shared service, but cannot recall text that someone already read, downloaded or incorporated into their own version.

Write notes that people can find and reuse

Use a specific title, meaningful section headings and enough context for a reader who has never seen your private project. For example, 'Garden seed-starting checklist' tells readers more than 'Notes 4'. Include an attribution or reuse statement when necessary; public visibility alone is not a universal copyright license.

Shared search looks at the note's title, full text and public author alias. Useful wording helps readers discover the actual subject. Repeating unrelated keywords or publishing the same note many times does not make a better resource.

Common questions