Find and manage your shares
The Shares panel lists every link you have published, with a live preview and controls to edit, protect, revoke, delete or republish each one.
Every link you have published lives in one place, the Shares panel. From there you can find a share, preview it, change its settings, or turn it off.
Open the Shares entry in the left sidebar (under the Yardmaster group, alphabetically between Settings and Skills). Yardmaster opens a two-pane layout: a narrow shares sidebar on the left listing every link you've published, and a wide detail pane on the right that shows the currently selected share, with a live preview of the published page and inline controls to edit, send, protect, revoke, delete, or republish it.
Find a share in the list#
The header shows "Shares" with a count, a New collection icon button (stacked layers), a + Publish button for pasted content, and the settings gear.
Below that is the search row: a search input that matches the share's label, the URL, and any date strings (so you can type "2026-05" to see shares created or expiring in May), then three small icon buttons: the tag filter (once you have a tag), New folder, and Hide archived. Then a row of segmented Kind tabs (All / Threads / Artifacts / Digests).
The list itself is your folder tree, with an Unfiled group at the bottom for shares that are not in a folder (with no folders at all it is simply a flat list). Hide archived is on by default, so revoked and expired links stay out of your way; turn it off and they appear in their folders, dimmed.
Click a row to load it in the detail pane. Middle-click a row to revoke it (you are asked to confirm first; a revoked share can be republished later). The list auto-refreshes when shares change in another window or via the CLI.
Each row keeps the label on its own line so it's always readable, with a small lock icon for password-gated links; a muted second line shows kind · scope · time-until-expiry (plus an eye-icon view counter, or N / cap, when you've set a cap), and archived rows carry a small Revoked or Expired badge.
To sort shares into folders and tags, see Organize shares with folders, tags and collections.
Preview a share inside Yardmaster#
Top of the detail pane shows the share's label, a status pill (Active green / Revoked red / Expired amber / View cap reached amber), a View button, a secondary Open in browser icon button, a Copy URL button (its label changes from Copy to Copied to confirm), and, when the share is embeddable, a Copy embed code button (see Embed a share in another page). The pane has three modes:
Edit mode (default): shows all the editing controls: label, expiration, password, send, comments, and destructive actions.
View mode: click View in the header to switch. The edit form is replaced by a full-height in-app viewer that renders the published page inside Yardmaster itself (the same content a recipient would see), so you can verify the share without opening a browser.
Fullscreen mode: click Maximize in the floating toolbar to expand the viewer to cover the entire Yardmaster window. Press Escape or click Exit full screen in the toolbar to return to view mode.
Share links clicked inside session messages or anywhere else in Yardmaster are automatically intercepted and opened in the in-app viewer instead of launching an external browser, so you never have to leave Yardmaster to view a share you already own.
Interactive HTML pages, animations, and tabs all work because the viewer runs in a separate Electron renderer process (not a sandboxed iframe).
A floating toolbar appears at the top on hover with buttons for Edit (return to editing), Maximize (go fullscreen), Open in browser, and Copy URL. The toolbar fades out after a few seconds so it stays out of the way.
If the page fails to load or the renderer process crashes, you see a clear error overlay with a fallback button.
Edit a share's label, expiry or password#
Below the preview is an inline edit form with everything that used to live in a modal: rename the Label, change the Expiration (or check Never expires), toggle a View cap and set the number, turn on Notify on view, and set or change a Password.
The password sub-form hashes the value on your machine with PBKDF2 600k iterations before it ever leaves Yardmaster: the plaintext is never sent across the wire or stored anywhere. Save is disabled until the form is both dirty and valid; Cancel reverts every field back to what's currently published.
What each option does is in Choose who can open a share.
Revoke, delete or republish a share#
At the bottom of the detail pane is a destructive-action footer:
Revoke (immediate 404, only while active).
Delete (permanently removes the row, with a red-text confirm).
Republish (mints a fresh URL and revokes the old one, only shown when the current share is revoked or expired and has a backing file).
Related
- Choose who can open a shareSet an expiry, a password, a view cap or Google sign-in on a share, and revoke or delete it when you are done.
- Share a conversation as a linkTurn an AI session, one message or a highlighted part into a read-only web page anyone can open.
- Share a file or page as a linkPublish a file or pasted content as a public link anyone can open in a browser, and find everything else you can do with a share.