Co-work

Co-work is Notemage's real-time collaboration mode. The notebook owner starts a session, invites friends, and everyone can move around the same notebook together. It's intended for small group study, peer review, and "study with me" sessions.

#Starting a session

Only the owner of a notebook can start a co-work session. Once it's running, you can invite people from your friends list — they get an invite notification, and accepting brings them into the session.

Co-work invites only work between users who are already friends. Add the person first, then invite them in.

#What you see

While a session is live you'll see who else is in the notebook (avatars, joined-at time) and which page each person is on. The host has a control bar at the top of the notebook for managing the session.

#Page locks and edit modes

Notemage uses a per-page lock system to prevent two people from clobbering each other's edits:

• When you start editing a page, you take a lock on it.
• Locks last 5 minutes before they expire automatically.
• You can hold up to 5 locks at once across the notebook.
• If somebody else holds the lock on a page, you can read it but you can't edit it until they release it (or it times out).

For more freeform sessions the host can flip on Open Editing Mode, which lifts the lock requirement so anyone in the session can edit any page at the same time. Useful for live brainstorming; not recommended if multiple people will be editing the same page word-for-word.

#Co-work chat

Each session has its own chat sidebar so you can talk to the rest of the group without leaving the notebook. The chat lives alongside the notebook content — it doesn't take over the screen.

#Ending a session

Only the host can end the session. When they do, everyone is disconnected. Re-starting later creates a fresh session.

#See also

• Groups and sharing — for asynchronous sharing inside study groups.