Sharing
Share a subject with someone, what reaches them live, and what stays yours.
Sharing is per subject. Invite someone into a subject and they get every board in it, including boards you build later. You cannot share a single board.
Sending invitations needs a plan, and a subject can be shared with up to five people. The people you invite do not need a plan.
Press Share on a subject's dashboard (on the iPhone, Share in the subject's ⋯ menu) and invite by email address, at one of two levels:
- View: reads every board in the subject.
- Edit: can also change what is on them.
They are emailed, and the subject appears on their home page under Shared with you. If the address has no verified MySummaries account yet, access starts once they sign up with that address and verify it, and a notification tells them it has arrived. You only invite once.
Until then the invitation is listed under the people with access, marked not signed up yet, with Withdraw beside it. A withdrawn invitation can never be used, whoever later signs up with that address. One you leave alone expires after 90 days. A waiting invitation holds one of the five places, so the subject cannot fill up behind it.
Share a link#
Instead of typing addresses, you can share a link, for example in a group chat. Under Share a link in the Share dialog, pick View or Edit and press Copy link (on the iPhone, Share link, which opens the share sheet). There is one link for each level, so copying again gives the same link.
- Anyone who opens it while signed in, on an address they have verified, joins the subject at that level. Someone not signed in is asked to sign in or sign up first.
- The five-person limit still applies. Once the subject is full, the link stops letting people in.
- Opening a link never changes the level of someone already in the subject.
- A link works for 30 days. Reset makes a new link and the old one stops working; Turn off stops it altogether. Neither removes anyone who already joined. To remove someone, use Remove as usual.
What reaches them#
The boards, live. Your edits arrive as you make them, and an editor's come back the same way. Two people changing different sections of one board do not overwrite each other; if you both change the same section at once, the later save wins.
Each section says who last changed it: hover over it on the web ("Edited by maria · 2 hours ago"), or open its menu on the iPhone. And when you come back to a shared board, a dot marks every section someone else changed since your last visit, with a count in the board's bar ("3 sections changed since you were here") that takes you to the first. Moving a section is not counted as changing it.
- 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.
What is shared follows the subject's index. A board moved out of the index leaves the share, and one moved back in rejoins it.
What stays yours#
Only the owner can:
- Edit the index: add sections and topics, build boards from it, reorder, suggest, restore.
- Rename, archive, delete or share the subject.
- Change the examiner and the language. Members can see both.
You study a shared board in place, with every tab, on the web and on the iPhone. Everything you make from it (flashcards, papers, lectures, stations, attempts, a Learn path, the Must not miss core) is yours: it is billed to you, your cards join your own due queue, and nobody else sees your progress. When the owner edits the notes afterwards, what you made says it was built from older notes. Views and the board's language stay the owner's.
Copy to my subject#
You do not need a copy to study a shared board. To fork one, so you can change it as your own, Copy to my subject on its bar on the web makes a board of your own. Pick the subject, the section and where in it the copy goes, or put it in Your boards. The copy opens when it is ready, and every tab works on it.
- It is a snapshot. The owner's later edits do not reach it, and yours do not reach theirs.
- You can have the copy written in another language from the same dialog (that needs a plan). Everything you make from the copy is then written in that language. The original is not changed.
Leaving and removing#
A member leaves from the Shared button on the subject's dashboard (on the iPhone, the people button on the subject's screen). In the owner's Share dialog, the owner removes people or switches them between View and Edit, which applies to every board at once.
Leaving or being removed takes away only the shared boards. Your copies, and anything you made from them, stay yours.
If the owner's plan lapses, members keep their access and the owner can still remove people. Inviting someone, or changing their level, needs a plan again.
Archiving shared work#
A subject. While a shared subject is archived, the people in it cannot open its boards; unarchiving gives them back. Its row under Archived subjects shows who it is shared with, and you can remove people from there.
A board. Archiving a board you have shared asks first (Archive and freeze). The people in it keep it, marked Archived by its owner and read-only: they can still read it, but nobody can change it until you restore it. Unless you do, it is deleted after 90 days, on the date it shows.