Share and comment

Share a document by link when you want feedback, for example from a supervisor, a co-author or a classmate. Anyone signed in to Papero who has the link can read the document and comment on passages of it. They cannot edit your text.

Open the document and press Share at the top right. You can also choose Share for comments… in Document options, the three dots.
If you have no display name yet, add one under Your display name and press Save name. It is shown next to your comments, and everyone with the link sees it.
Press Create link.
Press Copy link and send the link to the people you want to read it.

The link is shown only once. If you lose it, reset the link to get a new one. While a link works, the dialog says Link active, and the Share button reads Shared (on a narrow window it shows only an icon, with a dot).

Share the link only with people you want to read the document. Anyone who has it can read it while it works.

Reset or stop the link

Press Shared again, or choose Share for comments…, then:

Reset link makes a new link, and the old one stops working at once. The new link starts with no comments visible to its readers. You still see every comment.
Stop sharing ends the link at once.

Papero warns you that people with the current link will lose access. Press Confirm to go ahead. An image a reader has already opened can stay viewable for up to about two hours.

Archiving a shared document pauses its link. Restoring the document makes the same link work again. To end a link for good, stop or reset it.

What readers see

A reader opens the link and signs in to Papero. They see the document as it is when they open it, including changes you made after sharing. The page says Shared by with your display name.

They see the title, the text, the figures and the formatted reference list. They never see your library, your other documents, your prompts and outline, your saved versions or your chat conversations.

Comment on a passage

Readers comment from the shared page. You can comment on your own document too.

Select the text you want to comment on.
Press Comment.
Type under Your comment and press Send.

To comment, you need a confirmed email address and a display name. Papero asks for whichever is missing. A reader's display name and email address are shown to you, the writer.

The Comments panel

In your document, press Side panel, then the Comments tab. The tab shows how many new comments came in since you last looked. In the panel:

Show filters the list: All, Open or Resolved.
Press a comment to see its passage marked in the text.
Reply answers a comment in its thread.
Edit and Delete work on your own comments. As the writer, you can delete any comment on your document.
Resolve marks a thread as done, and Reopen opens it again. Only the writer can do this.

A comment marked On text that changed points at text you have since edited. A comment marked Not visible on the current link came in through a link you reset since.

The text of a deleted comment is erased at once. A comment with replies stays in the thread as Comment deleted, with no name.

Email about new comments

Papero can email you when someone comments on a document you shared. The email names the document and says how many comments are new. It never includes their text, and Papero groups new comments together rather than writing about each one.

To turn it on or off, open Settings, then Writing, and use Email me about new comments. Papero only emails a confirmed address.

When the link no longer works

A reader who opens a link that was stopped or reset, or whose document was archived, sees This link no longer works. Ask the writer for a new link.

Your data

Deleting a document deletes its link and its comments. For what Papero keeps and for how long, see the Privacy Policy.

To edit a paper together with co-authors, export it and work on it in Word or Overleaf. See Export to Word and Export to LaTeX and Overleaf.