Share an AI chat about a PDF with your team or classmates
Turn a conversation about a PDF into a read-only link. What the link shows, what it never includes, how to update it and how to stop sharing, on every plan.
You asked a PDF the right questions and got useful answers. Now someone else needs them: a teammate who missed the meeting, a classmate working on the same paper, a client who wants to know where a number came from. Copying answers into an email loses the page references, and sending the whole PDF is not always what you want.
Share links solve that. You turn a chat into a read-only page with its own address, and anyone you send the address to can read the questions and answers, including the page references. This works on every plan, including Free.
What a share link is
A share link is a public web page that shows a snapshot of one conversation. It has the title, the questions, the answers and the page numbers the answers cite. Anyone who has the address can read it without signing in.
It is a snapshot, not a live window. The page shows the conversation as it was when you created or last updated the link. Questions you ask afterwards do not appear until you choose "Update link".
What is shared and what is not
Be clear about this before you share anything.
Shared: the title you choose, the questions you asked and the answers you received, with the page references. The most recent part of a long conversation is included, up to a limit.
Not shared: Multi-PDF chats, which cannot be shared yet, and the PDF itself. The page holds no copy of the file and no link to it, and the page text the answers were drawn from is not included. The reader sees the answers and the page numbers, but cannot open your document from the link.
That last point has a consequence worth thinking about. The answers themselves can contain quotes or figures from the document. If the content of the answers is confidential, then the link is confidential too, and you should only send it to people who may see it.
How to create a link
- Open the document's chat. Finished documents with at least one question and answer can be shared.
- Click Share in the chat's title bar. On a phone it is an icon in the top bar, and the library's row menu also has "Share chat".
- Check the title. It starts as the document's name, and you can change it.
- Click Create link, then Copy, and send the address to whoever needs it.
The dialog explains what sharing does before you create anything, and nothing is public until you click the button.
Keeping the link up to date
If you keep asking questions after sharing, the page does not change by itself. Open the share dialog again and choose Update link. The same address now shows the newer conversation, so you do not have to send a new link to everyone.
There is one live link per document. This keeps things simple: you always know which address is the current one.
Stopping sharing
Changed your mind, or finished with the project? Open the share dialog and choose Stop sharing. The link is deleted, and the address stops working. If you share the same chat again later, it gets a new address, so the old one stays dead.
Deleting the document or your account also deletes its share links.
Privacy and search engines
Share pages are not meant to be found. They are marked so that search engines are asked not to index them, they are not in the sitemap, and the address is a long random string that cannot be guessed. But a link is still a link: anyone who receives it can pass it on, and it works until you stop sharing it. Treat it like an unlisted video rather than a locked file.
The page also says that the answers came from the sharer's PDF, and has a link to report a page if something looks wrong.
Good ways to use it
- Study groups. Share the questions that helped you understand a chapter, with the pages to read.
- Teams. Show a colleague what the contract says about a clause and where, without forwarding the file.
- Reviews. Give a supervisor the questions you asked about a paper, to discuss your reading.
- Clients. Back up a statement with the pages it comes from.
In every case the page references do the heavy lifting. A reader who doubts an answer knows which page of the original to open.
Next steps
To get the most out of a conversation before you share it, read how to chat with a PDF and why every answer shows its page. If your project involves several files, see how to chat with multiple PDFs at once, and for more ideas browse the use cases.
A conversation you can hand to someone else, with the page for every answer, is a small change that makes working together on documents much easier.
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