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Publish a page

Your .md stays on your Mac. Publishing puts a copy on the web as a page anyone with the link can read. Nothing leaves your computer until you turn Publish to the web on.

  1. Open the note and press ⌥⌘S (File → Share…), or click Share in the title bar.
  2. Sign in if you haven’t. You need an account only to share.
  3. Under When you publish, choose Publish as: Page, Slides, or Book site for a note that lists chapters. Set the options below.
  4. Turn on Publish to the web, then press Copy to copy the link.
  • Password. Turn it on and type one. Readers must enter it to see the page.
  • Expires. Never, In 1 day, In 7 days or In 30 days.
  • Readers can download the .md. Off by default.
  • Hidden from search engines. On by default. A page can be listed in search engines only after it has been up for a week.
  • Comments visible. Shows the note’s open comment threads on the page, read-only.

Pages show your account name at the top.

A published page changes only when you update it. The Share panel says Changed since you published when the note has moved on.

  • Update republishes the page.
  • Live republishes each time you save.

Open Share and choose Stop publishing, then confirm. The page goes down at once.

A note with --- between slides can be published as Slides and opens as a deck on the web. A folder book can be published as a Book site, with a page for each chapter.

The free plan holds 50 shared notes.