Public Share Links

Turn public sharing on for a document and MDflow generates a read-only link that anyone can open without an MDflow account.

Public sharing is available on both plans.

Turning it on

Open the document's sharing panel and enable public sharing. You get a link you can copy with one click.

Sharing is controlled independently for each document. There is no workspace-wide or folder-wide public switch — you publish one document at a time, deliberately.

How the link is protected

Share URLs use random 64-character slugs, designed to be impractical to guess. This is an unlisted link model, not a password: anyone who has the URL can read the document.

That has a direct implication:

Treat the link as the credential. Anyone you send it to can forward it to anyone else. If that is not acceptable, use private sharing by email instead (see 02 Private Sharing by Email), or encrypt the document.

Share pages are marked noindex, so search engines are asked not to list them. That is a request to well-behaved crawlers, not a security boundary.

Turning it off

Disabling sharing permanently invalidates the link. The old URL never works again — not now, not if you re-enable sharing later.

Re-enabling generates a fresh link. This is the correct way to revoke access from someone who has the URL.

What a reader can see

• The document's title and rendered body.
• Any uploaded images the saved public document references.
• Whether commenting is available.

What they cannot see:

• Your identity or email address.
• Any other document in your workspace.
• Uploaded images that this document does not reference.
• The document's version history.

Commenting

Commenting can be enabled or disabled per public document. See 04 Comments.

A small nicety: the commenting preference is kept when sharing is temporarily turned off, and restored when a new public link is generated. You do not have to remember how you had it configured.

Letting readers clone a copy

Signed-in visitors can clone a private, independent copy into their own workspace.

• They choose a destination folder.
• Referenced uploaded images are copied too, so their copy is self-contained.
• The copy is fully independent: your later edits, deletion, or unsharing do not affect it, and their changes never touch your original.

This is the mechanism for publishing a template someone should adapt rather than just read.

Encrypted documents

A shared encrypted document shows a password gate. Readers enter the password you share with them separately — MDflow never has it and cannot help them.

The sharing settings warn you about this before you publish.

Raw markdown for tools and agents

Append .md to any share URL to fetch the document as plain markdown:

https://mdflow.cz/share/{slug}.md

The response begins with YAML frontmatter — title, canonical URL, markdown URL, visibility — so a tool or AI agent can cite and read it in a single request. See 05 Agent Discovery Files.

Custom domain (Pro)

Pro users can connect their own domain in Settings. The sharing panel then offers both the custom-domain URL and the permanent MDflow-domain URL.

Use the MDflow-domain URL where permanence matters, since it keeps working regardless of what happens to your domain.

When a link is dead

An invalid or disabled link shows a friendly unavailable page — not an error, and not any hint about what used to be there.