Filing and share links

Every Expression files itself by context and names itself properly, and shares as a read-only, on-brand link you can revoke.

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01What it is

What happens to a piece of work once it exists: where it goes, what it is called, and how it reaches someone outside the product. The place it goes is a workspace; this is the machinery that puts it there and gets it out again.

02Why it matters

Filing is the work nobody does and everybody needs. The outdated copy on somebody's drive should stop mattering, and a governed link should replace the attachment nobody can find six months later.

03How it works

Filing. When an Expression is made it lands in the workspace it was briefed from: its project first, then its campaign, then its customer. You are told where it will land before you save, and where it went afterwards, so filing is never something you discover later. Anything with no workspace sits in Unfiled, which is a place, and not nowhere.

Naming. A file is named the way a careful person would name it every single time: the client, the context, the phase, the type, the title and the version, in that order. It still says what it is on somebody's desktop a year later, which is where most naming conventions go to die.

Sharing. A public share is a read-only, branded copy at an unguessable address, revocable at any time and with a lifetime you set, from a day to a year. Revoking takes effect at once: the files are served so that no cache keeps handing out a link you have withdrawn. One view lists every file with a live link, so you can see what is out there and pull any of it back. Publishing a page, a document or a deck waits for the sign-off; taking one down never does.

04How to use it
  1. Brief your work from a workspace; it files itself there.
  2. Approve it, then share the governed link.
  3. Check what is currently shared, in one view.
  4. Revoke it when it is done, and it stops working immediately.
  5. Keep an account's material in the customer's own folder: an introduction presentation made outside a project, the account plan, and the signals about that customer. A customer's signals are filed there when they are added; put others there with Connect….
05Q&A
Do I have to organize my work by hand?

No. Every Expression files itself by context. Where it goes is the workspace it was briefed from.

Are shared links safe?

They are read-only, branded and revocable at any time, with a lifetime you set when the link is made, from a day to a year. They are unguessable, and they are not password-protected: anyone with the address can read it until you revoke it.

Can one piece of work sit in two places?

Yes. Connect it to a second workspace. Nothing is copied; there is still one of it.

06Limits & not-yet

Per-workspace access control is roadmap. A share link cannot be given a password or tied to a named reader; revoking is the control. Refreshing a shared file when the knowledge beneath it changes is roadmap. Republishing is how a change reaches a link today.

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