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Sharing & mobile

How sharing permissions work on a brainstorm, and what the mobile read-only view looks like.

A brainstorm is a document under the hood, so it shares the same permissions model as everything else in Your Content. You invite teammates, set per-person access, and they see the canvas in real time.

Sharing levels

Open the share dialog from the canvas (or from the library card menu). Three access levels apply:

LevelWhat they can do
ViewSee notes, annotations, connections, syntheses. Can't add or edit anything.
CommentSame as view, plus add their own notes. Can't edit or delete others' notes.
EditFull access — add, edit, delete others' notes, solidify or dismiss syntheses, change views.

Solidify and Dismiss work for comment and above. View-only collaborators see the candidate card but can't act on it.

Real-time updates

Everyone with access sees notes appear, classify, and connect in real time. This makes brainstorms great for live workshops — one person facilitates, everyone else dumps notes, and the canvas reorganizes around the conversation.

The share dialog supports public access (read-only) for people outside your workspace. Toggle it on and copy the share link. Anyone with the link can view the brainstorm; they can't add or edit anything.

Mobile

The mobile experience is read-only by design in v1.0. On a screen below 768px wide, the canvas renders as a list:

  • Notes are grouped by type
  • Synthesis candidates are pinned at the top
  • Solidify and Dismiss still work
  • The composer, view switcher, and full canvas chrome are hidden

This is intentional — the spatial canvas needs a mouse and a real screen to work well. If you need to drop a note from mobile, capture it with Voice Capture instead and import it later.

Brainstorm + spatial canvas on mobile is on the roadmap but not in v1.0.

Cascade delete

Deleting a brainstorm document removes:

  • The brainstorm itself
  • Every note on it
  • Every connection between notes
  • Every synthesis candidate (solidified or pending)

This is permanent. The Delete dialog warns you about the note count before you confirm.

Search and /your-content

Brainstorms appear in:

  • /your-content with a Brain icon and a sage tint, alongside notes and other documents
  • /search — note text and annotations are indexed, so any phrase you wrote on a note is searchable globally

Clicking a brainstorm in either place routes you to /brainstorm/<id>, not to a regular document editor.

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