Sharing
Share a subject with someone, what reaches them live, and what stays yours.
Sharing is per subject, not per board. Invite someone into a subject and they get every board in it, including the ones you make afterwards. There is no way to share a single board, deliberately: a board on its own is a page out of a book, and the index it belongs to is what makes it navigable.
Share from the Share button on a subject's dashboard. Invite by email address, at one of two levels:
- View — reads every board in the subject.
- Edit — can also change what is on them.
Someone you invite sees the subject on their own home page, under Shared with you. If the address has no MySummaries account yet, the invitation is parked and they are emailed a signup link; it becomes access the moment they sign up with that address, so you only have to invite once. Pending invitations are not listed anywhere and cannot be withdrawn — they simply expire after 90 days.
What reaches them#
The boards — the notes themselves, live. Your edits arrive as you make them, and an editor's edits arrive back the same way. Two people typing in one board merge section by section rather than overwriting each other, so a paragraph being written is never taken away by somebody else's save.
- Roots C5, C6, C7, C8, T1
- Trunks upper (C5–C6), middle (C7), lower (C8–T1)
- Divisions anterior and posterior, behind the clavicle
- Cords lateral, posterior, medial — named for their position around the axillary artery
- Branches the five terminal nerves
| Nerve | From |
|---|---|
| Musculocutaneous | Lateral cord |
| Axillary | Posterior cord |
| Radial | Posterior cord |
| Median | Lateral and medial cords |
| Ulnar | Medial cord |
Erb's palsy is upper trunk (C5–C6); Klumpke's is lower trunk (C8–T1). Which level a deficit points to is the question worth being able to answer in one sentence.
Membership follows the index. Re-file a board into a different part, or restore an older version of the index, and access is re-derived for every board whose claim moved — a board the index stops claiming leaves the share, and one it claims again rejoins it.
What stays yours#
Everything that is not the notes:
- The index. Only the owner writes it — adds parts and topics, reorders, suggests, restores.
- The lifecycle. Renaming, archiving, deleting and sharing the subject are the owner's.
- The examiner and the language. A member sees which examiner and which language the subject is written in, and cannot change either.
And everything derived from a board — flashcards, papers, lectures, stations, attempts, the Must not miss core — belongs to whoever made it. The billed tabs are hidden on a board shared with you, because a deck belongs to a board and there is exactly one slot for it: yours would have to sit where the owner's already is.
That is what makes the next part necessary rather than a convenience.
Copy to my subject#
On a shared board, Copy to my subject makes a board of your own from it. Pick the subject and the part it should land in — the copy opens when it is made, and it is yours completely: Cards, Exam, Oral and Lecture all work on it, and everything they produce is yours.
Two things to know about a copy:
- It is a snapshot. The owner's later edits reach the shared original and not your copy; nothing syncs back the other way either.
- You can copy it into another language at the same time, from the same dialog. The copy is translated section by section and pinned to that language, so everything generated from it afterwards is written in it. The original is never touched.
Leaving and removing#
A member leaves from the Shared button on the subject's dashboard. An owner removes someone, or changes their role between View and Edit, from the same dialog; a promotion or demotion takes effect on every board in the subject straight away.
Leaving or being removed takes away the shared boards, and nothing else: copies you made, and the cards, papers and lectures you made from them, are yours and stay.