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Sharing an item
Share a login, card or note with one other person without sending the password in an email or a chat. The item is locked to their own key, so only they can open it, and they see your changes as you make them.
To share with a group of people, use a family or team organization instead (see Families and teams).
Sharing an item
- Open the item and choose Share with a person from its menu.
- Enter the other person's email address and choose what they may do: read only, and whether to hide the password from them.
- Compare the fingerprint phrase. You see five words, like
velvet-orbit-cashew-tundra-plank. Ask the other person, by phone or in person, to read the phrase on their side (under Settings > Account). If it matches, you are sharing with the right account, not an impostor. - Confirm. The item is sent to them.
On the free plan you can share an item with one person; Premium lifts that limit. You need to have confirmed your email address. Only personal items can be shared this way; items in an organization are shared through its collections.
Sharing with someone who has no account yet
They get an email inviting them to Obsidian Vault. Once they have created an account and confirmed their address, you see the share waiting in Sharing (under Tools): compare their fingerprint phrase and finish it.
Shares sent to you
Shares sent to you wait in Sharing until you accept or decline them. Accepted items appear under Shared with me. If the sharer allowed it, you can edit the item; you can't move, delete or share it further.
Stopping a share
In Sharing, stop the share on an item you shared. It disappears from the other person's vault at once.
Stopping a share can't make them forget a password they already saw, so the vault suggests changing it. Moving a shared item into an organization also ends its shares.
As the person it was shared with, you can leave a share the same way.