Working together on a note
A note's Notepad can be written by more than one person at the same time. Two people taking minutes of the same meeting see each other's typing as it happens, with no "someone else is editing" warning and no copy to merge afterwards.
This is the Notepad only. The summary is written by ScribX and edited one person at a time; its own history records who changed what.
Who is here
The top of the note shows who has it open, by name — not an anonymous count of "3 viewers". Each person's cursor carries their name as they move it, so a paragraph appearing under your own tells you who is writing it.
Somebody who only has read access appears here too. They can follow along; they cannot type.
While the connection is imperfect
Editing keeps working when the network does not:
- Offline — what you type is kept locally and sent when the connection returns. You are not locked out of your own notes because the Wi-Fi dropped.
- Idle — a tab left open for a long time disconnects rather than holding a session open all afternoon. Touching the page reconnects it.
- Access changed while you had it open — if somebody removes your access, the page tells you and stops, instead of letting you type into something that will not save.
What each person may do
Access comes from the note, not from the editor:
| Read the note | Write in the Notepad | Restore a version | Share it further | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Owner | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Editor | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Viewer | ✓ | — | — | — |
Notes in a team folder are readable by that team without anybody being added one at a time — see Folders.
Adding people
Share adds people as chips before anything is granted: type a name, it finds them the way the rest of the product does, and they sit in the field until you confirm. Nothing is shared by the act of typing an address, and nobody gets an email because you were halfway through a thought.