Sharing a board with a read-only link

Sometimes the outline needs a second pair of eyes — an editor, a co-author, a friend who promised to be honest. Share links give someone the whole board without giving them the keys.

Creating a share link

Open the board and click Share in the header, then Create share link. Copy the URL and send it however you like. That's the entire process.

What visitors can do

Anyone with the link can view the board: see the layout, open cards, read everything, follow card links between cards, fan out stacks, and view images. They don't need a Cork account, and nothing identifies them to Cork.

What they can't do is touch anything: no editing, no dragging, no adding or deleting. The board is glass-cased. Your visitors see a "Read-only" badge so nobody wonders why dragging doesn't work.

What a share link doesn't expose

Only that one board. Your other boards, your account, and anything you archive later stay private. The link's URL contains a long random token — unguessable in practice — but treat it like anything you email: whoever has it, has it.

Turning a link off

Open Share again and click Turn off share link. The old URL stops working immediately — visitors see a polite "this link is no longer active" page. Creating a new link later produces a different URL, so switching a link off and on again is also how you cut off everyone who had the old address.

Live, not a snapshot

A share link shows the board as it is now, not as it was when you shared it. Keep rearranging; your reader sees the current state on their next refresh. If you want to preserve a moment in time instead, export the board.