Sharing turns a diagram into something other people can open. A share link lets anyone with the URL join your diagram in real time, with live cursors and edits flowing between everyone. You can protect a link with a password, give it an expiry date, or embed a read-only view of the diagram in another page. None of this needs the other person to sign in: a share link can be handed to a guest who edits without an account.
Share links
Open the Share dialog on a diagram to create a link. Each link carries a role:
- Edit lets the visitor change the diagram with you, live.
- View lets them watch and pan and zoom, but not edit.
A diagram can have several links at once, so you can hand out an edit link to your team and a view link to everyone else. Whoever opens a link joins the same realtime room, so cursors and changes appear as they happen.
Controlling access
Two self-serve controls let you bound who gets in and for how long:
- A share password makes every link prompt for a password before it opens. The diagram's owner always bypasses it.
- A share link expiry gives a link a lifetime (a week, a month, or six months). When it runs out the link stops working, but stays in your dialog so you can extend or delete it.
These are independent: you can use either, both, or neither. They are layered on top of the link role, not a replacement for it.
Embedding a diagram
A read-only embed puts a live, view-only copy of a diagram inside another page, like a wiki, a doc, or Notion. The embed shows the canvas with pan and zoom, hides all the editing chrome, and updates as the diagram is edited. The Share dialog has a Copy embed code button that gives you a ready-made snippet to paste.
Need to stop sharing entirely? Delete a link from the Share dialog. Anyone currently viewing through it loses access, and the URL stops resolving.
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