Paper Groups and friends
Team notes, end-to-end encrypted, edited at the same time.
The personal notebook and groups are kept apart. What's yours stays yours; what belongs to the group stays in the group's space. Switch between them with the selector at the top of the sidebar, the same one used for vaults. New group is at the end of that list.
Friends
Each account has a 32-character ID, in Settings → Profile. To add someone:
- By ID: the person gives you their ID and you send a request.
- By invite: create a link in Settings → Friends, with a deadline and a number of uses. Whoever opens the link becomes your friend.
In Friends you choose who can send you requests (anyone or link only) and block whoever you want.
Groups
A group is a shared space of pages. Everyone in the group sees the same pages and edits at the same time, seeing who's on each page.
| Role | What they can do |
|---|---|
| Owner | Everything, including deleting the group |
| Admin | Invite, remove and change roles of people below them |
| Editor | Create and edit pages |
| Reader | Read only |
Groups need internet, since editing is live. The personal notebook works without it.
End-to-end encryption
Group content is encrypted on the device before it leaves. The Paper server relays and stores only scrambled data, without the key to open it. That's why:
- No access token reads groups.
- If everyone in the group loses the key, nobody can recover the content, not even Paper.
No chat
Paper has no chat. The focus is writing together: to agree on something about a page, write it on the page itself.