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Share a script with a link

Create a read-only link to a specific version, decide what readers may do with it, and watch what they read — then revoke it when the draft moves on.

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A share link opens your script for someone who has no Inkwell account. You choose which version it shows and what a reader can do; you can see who read it and how far; and you can switch it off at any time.

Readers see your screenplay with the editor's dialogue spacing, character cues, and parenthetical formatting. Simultaneous dialogue reads side by side.

On a return visit, What's new helps readers catch up on changes since their previous read.

The share panel: the new-link form (1) with its expiry, password, watermark, and view-limit options, and the project's links below it (2) — this one just created.
The share panel: the new-link form (1) with its expiry, password, watermark, and view-limit options, and the project's links below it (2) — this one just created.
  1. Open the share panel

    Choose Share in the toolbar. The panel lists any links the project already has, with the form for a new one above them.

  2. Pick the version

    A link shows the current draft line by default and follows it as you write. Pin it to a save point or a milestone instead when the reader should see one fixed version — the table-read draft, say — no matter what you change afterwards.

  3. Set what readers may do

    Choose whether readers may download a PDF, whether they may comment on the page, and whether the pages carry a watermark with the reader's name or email. A link can also take a password, an expiry date, and a view limit after which it stops working.

  4. Copy and send

    Choose Create link and copy it. Send it however you send things; the link itself is what admits the reader.

  5. See who read it

    The panel shows each link's reads — when, how far into the script, and for how long — so you know whether the draft was opened before the call. Comments readers leave arrive in the Feedback tab; see Viewer comments.

  6. Revoke it when you are done

    Choose Revoke on a link and it stops working immediately, for everyone who has it. Make a new one for the next draft.

What next

  • Read and answer viewer comments

    Where a reader's comments on a shared script arrive, how to jump to the line each one is about, and how to resolve them when the note is dealt with.

    How-to · 1 min read

  • Mark a milestone

    Pin a name to the version you sent out — table read, first studio draft, locked white — so it stays findable in History and exportable as itself.

    How-to · 1 min read

  • Plans and quotas

    Every plan's limits — projects, draft lines, save points, skill runs, completions, collaborators, share links, storage, and export formats.

    Reference · 1 min read

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