Sharing

Sharing transforms your personal study notes into learning resources for others. Whether you want to help classmates, build a portfolio of notes, or collaborate with study partners, Notesmakr's sharing features make it easy to spread knowledge. Sharing is not limited to a paid plan.

Why Share Your Notes?

Help Others Learn

Your simplified explanations can help fellow students who are struggling with the same material.

Build a Study Resource Library

Choose Public and search engines may index your note, so people searching for the topic can find it.

Collaborate with Study Partners

Send the link of a note to specific friends or study groups so everyone studies from the same explanation. Viewers read your note; they can't edit it.

Portfolio for Academic Work

Showcase your study notes as examples of your learning process for applications, scholarships, or portfolios.

Teach to Learn

Sharing notes reinforces your own understanding—knowing others will see your work motivates you to explain more clearly.

How Sharing Works

When you share a study note, Notesmakr creates a web page that anyone with the link can read:

Study Guide View

Viewers see your study guide in a clean, readable format displaying the simplified content (your Feynman explanation) if available, or the original content as a fallback.

What's Included

• Simplified content — Your explained version of the material
• Original content — The source material (if simplified version doesn't exist)
• Title — Your note's title
• Overview details — On the web page, the Overview tab also shows the note's summary, key concepts and tags
• View count — And your name as the author, only if you choose to display it

What's NOT Included

• Study tools — Your flashcards, quizzes, and mind maps are not part of what is shared
• Personal annotations — Typed notes, handwritten drawings, and voice recordings remain private
• Highlights and underlines — Your text markups are not shared
• Study progress — Study time, comprehension levels, and last studied dates remain private
• Your name — Unless you tick Display my name on shared note
• Edit capabilities — Viewers can only read (read-only mode)

Sharing Options

When you open the share page for a note, you choose between two visibility options. Both can be read by anyone who has the link, and neither is password-protected.

Public Sharing

Your note can be found through search engines, as well as through its link.

Best for:

• Helping the wider learning community
• Topics you want people to be able to find through search
• Contributing to open educational resources

Visibility:

• Search engines (Google, Bing, etc.) may index the page
• Shareable anywhere you can paste a link
• Anyone with the link can access
• Notesmakr shows a warning when you pick Public, because the note becomes visible to anyone and searchable on Google

Unlisted Sharing

Your note is available to people who have the link, and search engines are asked not to index it. This is the default.

Best for:

• Sharing with specific friends or study groups
• Keeping notes semi-private
• Testing sharing before going fully public
• Selective distribution

Visibility:

• NOT indexed by search engines
• Accessible only to people with the link
• Still readable by anyone who has the link (not password-protected)

Private

There is no separate "private" option. To make a note private again, switch the sharing switch off. The link stops working until you switch it back on.

What Viewers Experience

When someone accesses your shared note, they get a dedicated web page with:

Clean, Readable Layout

Your content displayed in a clean reading view.

No Account Required

Viewers don't need a Notesmakr account to read shared notes—just the link.

Import to Personal Collection

Viewers can import the shared note to their own Notesmakr account by tapping Import to My Notes in the app. This copies your note's title and text content into their library as a separate note that they can:

• Annotate and highlight
• Generate their own study tools from
• Modify and personalize
• Study and track on their own

Your annotations, flashcards, quizzes, mind maps and study progress are not copied. The import is a fresh copy, so updates you make later won't change their imported version. On your share page, Imports counts how many times it happened.

What You'll Find in This Section

This section covers everything about sharing your study notes:

• Sharing a Note — Step-by-step guide to sharing a note and managing the link
• Viewing a Shared Note — What the viewer experience looks like

Sharing and Privacy

What's Safe to Share

• Study notes you've created from public sources (textbooks, online articles, videos)
• Your own original explanations and simplifications

What NOT to Share

• Copyrighted material you don't have permission to redistribute
• Notes containing private or sensitive information
• Class materials your teacher designated as private
• Personal identifiable information

Sharing Best Practices

Write for Your Audience

When creating notes you plan to share:

• Use clear, accessible language
• Define technical terms
• Include context (don't assume viewers have background knowledge)
• Proofread for clarity and errors

Add a Helpful Title

Make your note title descriptive and searchable:

• Good: "Photosynthesis: Simple Explanation for High School Biology"
• Bad: "Biology Notes"

Write Clear Content

Make your simplified explanation as clear as possible. The better you explain the concept in your own words, the more helpful it will be to others.

Keep It Accurate

Double-check facts and explanations. Others are relying on your note to learn correctly!

Update When Needed

If you discover errors or improve your understanding, update shared notes so viewers get the best information.

Community and Collaboration

Sharing notes opens opportunities for:

Building Reputation

Consistently sharing high-quality notes, with your name displayed if you choose, can establish you as a helpful resource in your learning community.

Motivating Others

Seeing your notes might inspire others to create and share their own, growing the collective knowledge base.

Report Inappropriate Content

If you encounter a shared note that contains spam, inappropriate content, copyright violations, or offensive material, you can report it using the flag icon in the app's shared study guide screen. This helps keep the community safe and focused on learning.

Next Steps

Ready to share your first note? Check out:

• Sharing a Note — Learn how to generate and manage share links
• Viewing a Shared Note — See what viewers experience

Start sharing and help build a community of learners!