Public Sharing

When you make a content item public, Plotiar serves it on public.plotiar.com via a dedicated read-only viewer for that content type. Public viewers strip out edit affordances, comment authoring, and any private notes, but preserve the layout, formatting, and structure of the content as you authored it.

Publishing is a per-item toggle. Toggle a single document public to share that document only. Toggle the project itself public to expose the project shell — viewers can then navigate into any content items you have also marked public.

Plotiar ships dedicated public viewers for every visual content type and Smart Content.

• •Documents — full canvas-editor rendering, page layout preserved
• •Flowcharts — interactive node-and-edge diagram
• •Ideaboards — full tldraw canvas
• •Plot grids — chapter-by-plotline grid with status colours
• •Taskboards — kanban columns and cards in read-only mode
• •Corkboards — index cards with their status and tags
• •Family trees — person nodes with relationships and portraits
• •Maps — interactive maps with layers, markers, and themes
• •Calendars — month/week/day views for both standard and custom calendars
• •Smart Content — Cover, TOC, Bibliography, Character Index, Glossary, Back-of-Book Index

Make any content item public from its Share panel.

1. 1

   Open the content

   Open the document, flowchart, plot grid, or other content you want to publish.

2. 2

   Open the Share panel

   Open the Share tab in the right sidebar.

3. 3

   Toggle Public

   Toggle "Make public". A public.plotiar.com URL appears that anyone can open.

4. 4

   Copy and share the URL

   Send the URL to readers, paste it on social, or embed it anywhere a public link makes sense.

Toggling a project public exposes the project shell — its name, description, and a navigable index of items you have separately marked public. You publish the project so readers can find your content; you publish individual items so they can read those items.

• •Public project URL: public.plotiar.com/public/project/{projectId}
• •The project shell only lists content items that are themselves public
• •Private content items remain hidden even when the project is public
• •Generated sitemaps include public projects so they can be indexed

Public viewers are tuned for read-only consumption. They preserve everything that matters for reading, viewing, and navigating, and remove anything that would only be useful for editing.

• •Full content rendering with formatting, layout, and theme preserved
• •Navigation between sibling content items (when the parent project is public)
• •Open Graph metadata so links unfurl with title, description, and a generated cover image on social platforms
• •No edit, no comment, no version history, no Lore-private notes
• •No requirement for the viewer to have a Plotiar account

Public Sharing is binary — a content item is either public or private. There is no per-viewer access list and no password protection on public URLs. If you need access controls, invite collaborators by email or generate a shareable link from the Collaboration system instead.

• •Anyone with the URL can view a public item — there is no view limit or expiry
• •Public URLs are unguessable IDs but should still be treated as widely shareable
• •Comments and Lore private notes are never sent to the public viewer
• •Public status is enforced server-side; there is no client-side override
• •Toggling public off invalidates caches immediately — the URL stops working as soon as the toggle returns success

Unpublish at any time from the same Share panel. The toggle returns the item to private, the public URL stops responding, and any cached public version (including OG images) is invalidated.

• •Unpublishing is immediate — the public URL returns a not-found response after the toggle confirms
• •Cached previews on third-party platforms (Twitter, LinkedIn, Slack) may persist briefly until those platforms refresh
• •Unpublishing a content item does not delete it; it remains in your project as a private item
• •Unpublishing a project hides the public index but does not affect individual public items inside it