Share a Space

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Share a Space with the people you work or live with, so you all keep the same pinned links and folders. You choose who can view it and who can edit it. Their open tabs and sign-ins stay their own.

What is shared

  • Shared: the Space's name and look, its pinned links and folders, and what its agent remembers.
  • Not shared: each person's open tabs, sign-ins, history and conversations with the agent. Everyone signs in to sites as themselves.

Sharing goes through iCloud, between your iCloud account and theirs. Nothing passes through a server of Tern's. Each person needs Tern and an iCloud account.

Share a Space

  1. Open the Space's menu.Right-click the Space's icon at the top of the sidebar.
  2. Choose Share Space.Choose Share Space…. The Mac's sharing window opens.
  3. Invite people.Pick how to send the invitation and who to send it to. Only the people you invite can open it, never anyone else who finds the link.
  4. Choose what they can do.Let each person view the Space, or view and edit it.

Once it's shared, the Space shows who shared it and how many people are in it, such as "Shared by you · 3 people".

Join a shared Space

When someone shares a Space with you, open the invitation on your Mac. Tern adds the Space and opens it. It says "Shared with you", and "view only" if you can't edit it.

People who can edit change the Space for everyone: add a pinned link, move one into a folder, rename a folder. If two people make changes at the same time, both keep their changes. People who can only view see every change, but what they change on their own Mac doesn't go to the others.

TipThe agent's memory is shared too, so telling it who you work with or how you like answers helps everyone in the Space. You can see and change what it remembers in Settings › Agents. See Memory.

Change or stop sharing

  • Manage Sharing… lets the person who shared the Space add or remove people and change what they can do.
  • People in This Space… shows everyone else who is in it.
  • Stop Sharing… takes the Space, its links and what its agent remembers away from everyone else. It stays yours, as it is now.
  • Leave Space… takes it off your Mac. The others keep it.

A shared Space can't be deleted straight away, so nobody loses it by surprise. Stop sharing it or leave it first. To share a single set of pages instead of a whole Space, send a Desk as a link: see Share a Desk.

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