Tisty Share a document with someone who does not use Tisty
Someone needs to read one of your documents: the notes for a handover, a recipe, the minutes of a meeting. They do not use Tisty, and you would rather the copy did not outlive the reason you sent it.
What people usually do
- 1
Attach it to an email or a chat
Quick, and the file stays in their inbox and on the provider's servers for as long as they keep it. A Markdown file also arrives as raw text.
- 2
Upload it to a cloud drive and share a link
The link works until you remember to take it back, and the provider holds the file readable.
- 3
Paste it into a message
Fine for a paragraph. The tables, diagrams and pictures stay behind.
What that leaves behind
- A copy you no longer control, readable by whoever stores it.
- No end: it stays until somebody deletes it, if anybody does.
- Nothing that tells the reader the copy really came from you.
How to share it from Tisty
- Open the document and, in the panel beside it, press Share… in the Shared row.
- The first time, Tisty makes the key that signs what you share, backed up with your 24-word phrase, and asks you to accept Folio's terms.
- Choose what the other person can do and how long it lasts without use, 15 days at most, and copy the link.
- Whoever gets it reads it in a browser, with no account. The page says which key signed it, and anything that should not be there can be reported.
- Folio keeps only encrypted bytes: the key travels in the link, after the #. Your document stays in your Tisty.
To learn about Folio, the service behind the link, visit its home: folio.tisty.app
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Does the other person need Tisty or an account?
No. The link opens in any browser, with no account and nothing to install.
Can Folio read what I share?
No. Tisty encrypts it before it leaves, and the key travels in the link, after the #, which browsers never send. The exception is a report that hands the operator the link to read it, in the cases Folio's terms list.
What if I lose the link?
Nobody can recover it, because the server never had its key. While the document is shared, Tisty keeps its links: copy them again from its Shared row.