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Everything you create in PeerNotes — every thought, note, and source — starts private to you. Nothing reaches your teammates until you decide it should. Sharing is one toggle, it works the same way for all three types, and it’s always reversible.

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Share an item with your workspace

Each thought, note, and source has a Share with workspace control — on its card in the feed, and on the item itself when you open it.
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Turn on Share with workspace

The item moves from private to shared. Its control now reads “Shared with workspace — click to unshare.”
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Teammates can now see and comment

It appears in the Shared view of that feed for every member, and anyone can comment on it or mention a teammate in it.
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Unshare whenever you want

Toggle it back off and the item is private again. Sharing isn’t a commitment — widen or narrow it as the thinking develops.
Sharing controls who can see an item. It doesn’t let others edit it — for that, see collaborators below.

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Set your sharing defaults

By default, every new thought, note, and source is private. If you’d rather share a whole type automatically, set it in Preferences → Sharing — independently for Thoughts, Notes, and Sources. A common setup: notes shared by default (you write them for the team), thoughts and sources private (your raw material). You can still flip any individual item the other way.

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Bring collaborators into a note

Sharing lets the workspace read a note. Collaborators let specific people edit it with you.
  • Open the note’s share panel and add people by email.
  • Collaborators can open the note, see the latest draft, and contribute their own edits.
  • Adding a collaborator shares the note with the workspace automatically.
Collaborators are notes-only — see Collaborating on notes for how to use them well.

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What stays private

A private thought, note, or source is yours alone — no teammate can see it, and it never appears in a Shared view. Your teammates only ever see:
  • items you’ve turned Share with workspace on for, and
  • notes you’ve added them to as collaborators.
Sharing an item also makes its comment thread and any @mentions visible to the workspace. If a note is still rough, keep it private (or scoped to collaborators) until it’s ready for wider eyes.