Publish a note as a web page

Turn a note into an encrypted web page anyone with the link can read, with a table of contents and an optional password, then update or unpublish it.

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Publishing a note turns it into a web page that anyone with the link can read, without an account and without Filarr. It suits a project brief for a client, a reading list, a guide for your family. Filarr encrypts the page before it leaves your device: the key travels in the link, never to Filarr's servers.

A published page is a copy of the note at the moment you publish. It doesn't follow your later edits until you publish it again.

What you need

  • A cloud account. Publish to web… doesn't appear for a local profile.
  • The desktop app or the web app: both publish.

Your plan sets how many pages can be online at once: 3 on Free, 20 on Solo, as many as you like on Pro and above. When you reach the limit, unpublish a page or change plan. See Plans and limits.

Publish a note

  1. Open the note.

  2. Click … at the top right of the note header (Page options), then choose Publish to web….

  3. Choose the options:

    • Also publish sub-pages appears when the note has sub-pages. Its sub-page blocks become links to pages of their own;
    • Show a table of contents adds a table of contents to the page, when it has at least three headings;
    • Show “Made with Filarr” adds a small line at the bottom of the page. You can untick it on any plan;
    • Expiry: Never, In 7 days, In 30 days or In 90 days. You choose it at the first publication only;
    • Password (optional): readers have to type it to open the page. Filarr never receives it: without it, nobody can read the page, Filarr included.

  4. Click Publish.

The window now shows the publication date and the version number, the address of the page, and the buttons Copy link and Open. It may already say Modified since publishing, even though you changed nothing: you can ignore it.

Send the link to your readers. As for a share link, the part after # is the key: anyone with the whole link can read the page.

Update the page

After you change the note:

  1. Open Page options again, then Publish to web….
  2. Look at Show a table of contents and Show “Made with Filarr”. They are ticked again each time the window opens: untick them again if you had turned them off.
  3. Click Republish.

The link stays the same, and the version number goes up by one. Readers see the new content the next time they load the page.

To protect a page that has no password, click Add a password…, type it, then Republish. If the page already has a password, Filarr asks for it again before republishing, in Page password.

What readers see

Readers open the link in any browser. They see the title of the note and its content: text, pictures, tables, formulas and diagrams. If you ticked the options, they also see the table of contents, the menu of sub-pages and the Filarr credit line at the bottom. If the page has a password, they type it first.

Search engines don't list published pages. Only the people you give the link to can find them.

For now, the page readers see is in French, whatever their language: the password prompt, the buttons and the credit line.

Unpublish a page

  1. Open Page options, then Publish to web….
  2. Click Unpublish, then confirm.

The link stops working for everyone, and Filarr deletes the encrypted page from its servers. If you publish the note again later, it gets a new link.

A page with an expiry stops working on its own at that date. Its readers then see a message saying the page was removed. Republish doesn't bring an expired page back online: to change the expiry of a page, or to put an expired page back, unpublish it and publish it again.

Find all your published pages

Click Shares in the sidebar. The Published web pages section lists your pages, with how many you have published and your plan's limit.

Each page shows its state (Live, Expired or Unpublished), its version, its views and its publication date. For a live page:

  • Copy link copies its address;
  • Open note opens the note it comes from;
  • Unpublish takes it off the web.