Sharing and Collaboration

Scholarly lets you share any of your study materials with classmates, study partners, or anyone with a link. Most content types support sharing, view stats, comments, and duplication. You can also let people request access to private items so a wrong-permissions link doesn't dead-end them.

What You Can Share

• Pages
• PDFs
• Flashcard sets
• Recordings
• Podcasts
• Research reports
• Video lectures
• AI Slides
• AI Chat conversations

Opening the Share Window

Click the Share button on any content page header. The Share window opens with the link bar and the public/private toggle right at the top — copying the link is one tap.

On phones, the Share button opens your phone's native share sheet first, so you can send the link straight to Messages, Mail, WhatsApp, AirDrop, or anything else you have installed. Pick More options to open the full Share window.

Public vs Private

Every piece of content starts as Private. You control who can access it.

• Public — Anyone with the link can view. No login required.
• Private — Only people you invite by email can view. Everyone else sees a request-access screen.

Flip between the two with the toggle at the top of the Share window. The toggle is the first thing you see because it's the first decision you need to make.

QR Codes

Inside the Share window, scroll to the QR code section to generate and download a QR for the same shared link. The QR is great for:

• Showing on a slide deck or whiteboard so the class can scan to open.
• Printing on a study handout.
• Sharing in-person without typing the URL.

Invite by Email

Need to send to specific people? Open the Share window and add their emails in the Invite section. Each invitee gets an email with a one-tap Open link.

If you accidentally invited the wrong person, the Remove button on each invite row works on touch and on hover.

Request Access

When someone opens a private link without an invite, they see a Request access page instead of a dead end. They can sign in (or sign up), add an optional note, and tap Request access — you'll get an email with their name, note, and Approve / Decline buttons.

The moment you approve, the page on their end refreshes into the unlocked content automatically. See Requesting Access for the recipient's side of the flow.

View and Save Stats

For public items, the Share window shows a small stats strip:

• Views — how many people opened your link.
• Saves — how many viewers copied the item into their own account.
• Last viewed — when the most recent view happened.

It's a quick signal that the materials you shared are being used.

Save to My Account

Anyone who can view a shared item can save it to their own account using the Save to my account button (with a bookmark icon). That creates an independent copy they own and can edit. The original is unchanged.

Logged-out viewers see a sign-up prompt that names the specific item they're looking at — for example, "Save this flashcard deck."

Shared With Me

Pages, decks, podcasts, video lectures, and other items shared with you appear alongside your recent study materials with a clear Shared label. No separate sidebar destination to dig through.

Pinning Content

Pin any content type so it's always at the top of your sidebar and home page:

• Pages, PDFs, flashcard decks, recordings, podcasts, research sessions, video lectures, AI Slides, and chats.

Pin from the content page header, by hovering over a card on the home page, or by right-clicking any item.

Sharing AI Chats

Share any AI conversation publicly or privately, exactly like other content. Shared chats display read-only — viewers see all messages and any AI-generated content but cannot send new messages.

Privacy Notes

• Public links can be opened by anyone who has the URL — treat them like an unlisted page.
• Switching from Public back to Private invalidates the existing public link the next time someone opens it.
• Revoke individual invites at any time from the Share window. The next time the revoked person opens the link they'll see the Request Access page instead.

Related

• Requesting Access — what happens on the other side of a private link.
• Scholarly on Mobile — including the native share sheet and QR codes.
• AI Chat and Voice Mode — sharing chats with public links.