Features

Sharing Workspaces

Most software makes it easy to share information. Much fewer systems make it easy to share context.

Suppose somebody joins a project halfway through. You can send them links, bookmarks, documents, spreadsheets, screenshots, and chat logs. Eventually they may reconstruct what happened. More often, they ask questions, repeat work, or miss important context that existed somewhere else.

Byblos approaches the problem differently. Instead of sharing pages and hoping people understand the surrounding context, you share the workspace itself.

Bringing People Up To Speed

A shared workspace contains the pages, discussions, annotations, ratings, measurements, trees, and history that accumulated around them. New collaborators do not need to reconstruct the investigation, decision, or project from several different systems. They can see the same workspace that everyone else sees.

This is useful for research projects, family decisions, investigations, communities, and any other activity that spans many pages over time. Instead of explaining where information lives, you can simply share the workspace that already contains it.

Working Together

Shared workspaces allow people to contribute to the same collection of pages. Alice can leave notes on a page. Bob can respond to them. Carol can add measurements. Dave can grow new branches of the tree. Every participant sees the same pages and the same context surrounding those pages.

Because discussions, annotations, ratings, trackers, and navigation history remain attached to pages, collaboration happens around the information itself rather than in separate systems.

Sharing Is Simple

Sharing a workspace is intentionally simple. When you click the share button, Byblos copies a block of text to your clipboard. You can send that text using whatever communication tools you already use.

The shared text contains everything needed to join the workspace, including installation instructions for people who do not already have Byblos installed. The recipient installs the extension, pastes the code, and immediately gains access to the workspace.

There are no accounts to create, no passwords to remember, and no onboarding process beyond installing the extension and pasting the invite.

Access and Ownership

Byblos does not require sign-ups, email addresses, social media accounts, payment information, or a central identity provider.

Access is based entirely on possession of the workspace invite. Anyone who receives the invite can access the workspace. For now, this means that you and your collaborators are responsible for deciding who should receive access.

Before sharing a workspace, take a moment to make sure it contains only pages you intend to share. Shared workspaces are designed for collaboration, and collaborators should be people you trust.

Sharing Options

Sometimes you want to share an entire workspace. Other times you only want to share the pages you personally worked on.

Byblos supports both approaches. You can share your complete tree, or you can create a share that contains only the pages that pass your filters. The information buttons next to the sharing controls explain exactly what each sharing mode includes.

The Big Idea

Sharing a page transfers information.

Sharing a workspace transfers context.

Instead of sending people a collection of links and hoping they understand what happened, you can share the pages, discussions, decisions, and reasoning that accumulated around them.