Features ยท Sharing
Send a link. See who read it.
A deck, a doc or a dossier gets as many links as you need: open to anyone, behind a password, or for a list of people. Each one unfurls into a proper card, opens through a gate in the deck's theme, and tells you who read what. The link below is made up; the card and the gate are drawn by Dossier.
Every link, its own rules
Several links to the same deck can each say something different: one for the board, one for the auditors.
| Option | What it does | Plan |
|---|---|---|
| Public | Anyone with the link. | Free |
| Password | Six characters or more, stored only as a hash. A new one signs every reader out. | Free |
| Email list | Named addresses and whole @domains. | Pro |
| Verified email | Each reader proves their address with a six-digit code sent to it. | Pro |
| Readable address | dossier.page/you/board-q4 instead of a random token, checked for clashes. | Pro |
| Expiry | The link closes on a date. A new date opens it again. | Pro |
| Pinned version | Readers see one version instead of the latest. | Pro |
| PDF download | Allowed or blocked, per link. | Free |
| Label | Your name for the link, so stats say who it went to. | Free |
| Turn off | From then on, the link says it's closed. | Free |
Who read what, and for how long
Counted by person, not by page load, so a reader who comes back three times is one reader.
Per link
Views, readers, PDF downloads, and refused tries at the gate.
Per person
Visits, last seen, how far they got, and how long they read.
Per slide
Views, readers, average and median time.
Per doc section
Time spent in each ## section.
Per dossier
Totals, per item, per person and per link.
On Free
Views and total reading time. The rest is Pro.
Never the content
The gate shows the title, the kicker and who sent it. Nothing inside, until it opens.
Its own address
Readers' pages are served from dossier.page, apart from the editor and the API.
A way to report
Every shared page has a Report link, in case something on it shouldn't be there.
Bots don't count
The apps that fetch a link to draw its card stay out of the stats.
Shared by your agent, when you ask
Links go to other people, so an agent shares only when asked to. A password goes to readers apart from the link.
$ dossier share q4-review --allow @harbour.example,chair@board.example --slug board-q4 --label "Board"
$ dossier share q4-review --password tide-anchor-41 --label "Auditors" --no-download
$ dossier shares q4-review
$ dossier stats q4-reviewPrivate beta