Publish a guide, and revoke the link
What a public link actually exposes, how to turn it off, and what happens if you turn it back on.
Publish and share
Open the share panel
From the editor or your library, open sharing on the guide you want to send.
Copy the link
Copying the link publishes the guide if it is not already public, so there is no separate publish step to forget.
Send it
Anyone with the URL can read the guide and watch its companion video. They do not need a Knovvy account, and they cannot edit anything.
What a public link does and does not do
Publishing mints a random token and serves the guide at a /g/<token> URL. The token is not derived from anything guessable: it is not your guide name, your workspace, or a sequential id.
A public viewer gets a read-only projection of the guide. They cannot see your library, your other guides, your workspace members, or anything about your account. They also cannot edit, comment, or delete.
Revoking a link
Choose Make private in the share panel. The token is cleared and the URL returns a 404 on the very next request. There is no grace period, and no cached public copy hanging around.
If you publish the same guide again later, it gets a completely new token. The link you revoked stays dead permanently, which is exactly what you want when a URL got forwarded somewhere it should not have gone.
Sharing with specific people instead
A public link is the blunt instrument. For internal content, grant access to specific people on a specific guide, recording, or folder, with view, edit, or manage. Grants can carry an expiry date and stop applying on their own once it passes.
Grants and public links are independent. Revoking the public link does not remove a teammate who was granted the guide directly, and removing a grant does not unpublish anything.
Embedding
A published guide or video can also be embedded in a help center or intranet page. The embed respects the same publish state: unpublish the guide and the embed stops resolving too.