A good chat is often worth more than one reader. Maybe you worked through a tricky question and want a friend to see the answer, or you wrote a doc your team should read. On He.art, everything you write is private until you decide otherwise, and sharing it is one press away. This post walks through the choices.
Three ways to see it
Every chat and doc has one of three settings:
- Private. Only you can see it. This is where everything starts.
- Unlisted. Anyone with the link can read it, with no account needed. It isn't listed anywhere, so people only reach it if you send them the link.
- Public. Anyone with the link can read it, and it is also listed in the Community section of the sidebar for other signed-in people to find, with your name on it.
How to share
There are three places to change it, and they all do the same thing:
- The bar above an open chat. Beside Tags sit three small buttons: a lock (Private), a link (Unlisted) and a globe (Public). Press one and it applies at once.
- The Share button next to them opens a dialog with the same three choices, each explained, and the link with a Copy link button.
- The ⋮ menu on any chat or doc in the sidebar has Share, which opens that same dialog without opening the chat.
The link is the chat's or doc's own address, the one in your browser's address bar. Nothing new is made when you share, so the link keeps working as you keep writing.
How to stop sharing
Choose Private. The link stops working and the Community listing goes away immediately. Someone who opens an old link is told the page isn't public, rather than being dropped on the front page with no explanation.
Invite someone to edit a chat with you
Sharing lets people read. To let someone write too, open a chat's Share dialog and look under Editors: type their email address and press Invite. They will see the chat in their sidebar when they sign in, and the two of you can work in it at the same time. Editors are for chats; docs are shared for reading.
Continue a chat someone else shared
When you read a shared chat, there is a Continue this chat button at the end. Press it and He.art copies the whole conversation into your own account: every question, every answer, and copies of its attachments. From there you can keep asking, and nothing you do touches the original. Because the attachments are copied too, your copy still works if the owner later deletes theirs.
If you are not signed in when you press it, He.art asks you to sign in and then finishes the job for you, as long as you sign in within 15 minutes. And if the chat is your own, Continue simply takes you back to it.
Choose what new work starts as
Prefer to share by default? Press your name at the foot of the sidebar and find Default sharing. The same three buttons set what every new chat and doc starts as. Leave it on Private and nothing is ever shared unless you say so.
Try it
Open He.art, start a chat, and press the link button above it. Then send the link to someone and see it open for them, no account required.