Publishing a document

What publishing means

A published document is a normal web page. Anyone with the address can read it without an account, and search engines can find it. That is the point of it, and it is the difference from sharing, which lets named people in and nobody else.

Readers see the document, and nothing around it: no sidebar, no sign in, and none of your comments.

Publishing a document

1. Open the document and choose to publish it.
2. Choose Publish to the web.
3. The address appears, with a button to copy it. That is the whole thing.

Publishing is free, on every plan, and there is no limit on how many pages you publish or how many people read them.

The address

Every published document gets an address you can edit, so a page can be at something readable rather than a string of characters.

If you are on Pro and have connected a domain of your own, the page sits at the top of that domain instead. Sites covers connecting one.

Changes appear immediately

A published document is live. Edit a sentence and the published page says the new sentence: there is nothing to press to push the change out.

Telling people about it

Alongside the copy button there are buttons to post the page straight to Bluesky, LinkedIn, Reddit and Hacker News, or to put it in an email.

A link to a published page carries a title and description with it, so it arrives in a chat or a post looking like something worth opening rather than a bare address.

The line at the bottom

On the Free plan a published page carries a small line saying it was made with Docmode. On Pro it does not.

Publishing itself is never the thing behind the paywall. Pages, readers and visits are unlimited on both.

Taking it down

Unpublishing makes the address stop working immediately, and the document goes back to being private. Nothing about the document itself changes.