Sharing web references

Share to chat sends a web reference to a conversation, with an optional short note. You can use it on a web node or on a passage you clipped. The result depends on whether you are sharing a Glob node, an outside address or quoted words.

Sending a reference to chat and changing a node's sharing settings are separate actions. Check what you are sending before choosing the room.

Send a web node to chat#

1. Right-click the web node and choose Share to chat.
2. Check the page's title and site in the window.
3. Choose a destination under Rooms.
4. Add a one-line message in Add a note (optional) if useful.
5. Choose Send and wait for Shared to the chat.

The destinations can include Global, your groups, direct messages and topic rooms you have open. If there are no destinations, the window says Open a chat room first: Global, a group or a direct message. Open the conversation you need and try again.

The optional note can be up to 200 characters. Use it for context, such as “The section on colour is the part I meant.” Choose Close or press Escape to dismiss the window without sending.

What the other person receives#

For a web node with a shared room, the message uses the Glob node's link. The conversation can draw that node as a card, so readers can return to its place in Glob.

For an unshared web node with a website address, the message uses that outside address. It can appear as a page preview or, when no preview is available, as a plain link. Sending this address does not make the private Glob node public.

An uploaded PDF has no outside address. An unshared uploaded PDF therefore does not offer this chat action merely because you can read the file yourself. Use the node's ordinary sharing controls if you intend to give other people access, then share the readable node.

An outside website still decides who can open its content. A recipient may need their own sign-in or permission there. A preview card is a way to recognise the reference, not proof that every recipient can read the full page.

Send a quotation#

Select text in Glob reader, the PDF panel or a node's body, then choose Share to chat. You can also share from a clip's pinned source card.

The share window shows the quote and its source. Choose a room, add an optional note and send. The words travel with their source information; they do not send the entire reader article or PDF.

Chat shares fit a 500-character message. Long quotations are shortened to leave room for the note, so the recipient can receive an excerpt of the passage you selected. Save the passage as a clip node if you need to keep the longer quotation.

The same message limit can shorten a long website address together with its note. A shortened address may no longer open the intended page. Check the sent message. For a reference that is too long, sharing a readable Glob node uses its shorter node link; Copy link keeps the full outside address on your clipboard.

Copy the website address#

Use Copy link in a web node's menu for the page's address. It preserves the address saved with the node, including its query and the part after #. Link copied confirms the clipboard action; Couldn't copy the link means you need to retry.

For another placement of the same Glob node, use Copy node instead. See linked nodes. A fresh web node made by pasting someone else's copied website link can remember its source node and offer a From discussion; see discussing a web page.

If sharing fails#

Sign in to share to chat means you need an account session. Couldn't share it. Try again shortly means the send did not succeed. Keep the text you want to send, check the connection and retry.

Some refusals name the conversation's posting rules instead. Follow that message or choose a room you can write in. Do not assume that closing a failed share window sent the reference.

For a harmful-site warning or an outside link that will not open, read web page problems. For changing who can read the node itself, use sharing.