What Glob Social is

Glob Social is a place to build connected ideas and explore what other people have made. Your own place is Home, a canvas named with your username. You make nodes there, connect them, and choose which work to share.

You can also visit before making an account. The front page introduces Glob Social, and the Nexus, linked from it, is the public canvas, with topics you can open and explore. Public node pages and public profiles are readable while signed out. Sign in when you want your own Home or want to take part.

Build with nodes#

A node is a disc with a title, text and a colour. Its inside is another canvas. A reading project might have a node called Reading, with separate nodes inside for books, questions and quotations. Zoom into a node to work inside it; come back out to see it beside its neighbours.

A link joins two nodes on the same canvas. Use links to show a relationship: connect a question to the note that helps answer it, or connect several ideas around a subject. Moving a node changes its position while its links stay connected.

Making nodes is free. You can start with a few words and rearrange them as your work grows. Nodes and the canvas explains the gestures. Node options covers the controls for a particular node.

Keep a door to a place you like#

A pin places a reference to another node on your canvas. It gives you a way back without making a separate copy of the node's work. For example, keep a public science topic beside your own reading notes.

Zoom through a pin to enter its target. The pin stays in your arrangement, so you have a door to use again when you return. A pin cannot grant access to a target that is no longer readable. See Pins.

Home and the Nexus each have an outer edge. Zooming out at Home leaves you at Home. Use the Glob logo's Nexus choice or a pinned door to travel to the public canvas. The logo also gives you a route home. See Home and your root and The Nexus.

Make something public#

Public sharing opens a node and its inside for other people to see. Sharing has its own confirmation and review states. Read the whole confirmation before you continue, especially when the node contains other work.

A public node can be a place to talk and build. Its owner sets the permissions for contributions and chat, so reading a node does not always mean you can change it. Your own node, a friend's invitation and a public community can each offer different controls.

Start with Sharing a node. For the terms that apply to shared work, read the Terms. Data handling is explained in the Privacy Policy.

Read and collect#

Feed brings public wall posts into a reading view. It opens full screen on a phone, with the canvas one tap away. On a computer it is a tab beside your canvas.

Listr keeps notes, snippets, saved nodes and other entries across your workspaces. Use it to capture a thought, keep a post's source link or collect a place before arranging it on a canvas. Search finds public places and your work; Command+K or Ctrl+K opens a compact way to jump to a result.

Art, music and people#

Pixl Studio opens the pixel-art editor. Glob Studio opens the music studio. The Freemarket is where signed-in members browse work offered for credits. Credits belong to your Colli account; Credits explains the balances and spending controls you see here.

These are connected parts of Glob Social, each with its own guide. The wiki home also leads to friends, chat, walls, invitations, communities, notifications and help. If you are ready to begin, follow Getting started.