# Groups and friends

Source: https://wire.ia.br/documentation/en/guia/grupos

> 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 [#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 [#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 [#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 [#no-chat]

Paper has no chat. The focus is writing together: to agree on something about a page, write it on the page itself.