Collaborating in Nextjournal

Nextjournal provides a complete set of tools for working as a group, or with individual peers. Here, you'll find how to create a group, how to invite other people individually for collaboration on notebooks, and how to configure your notebooks' visibility.

Create a group

To create a group, open the dropdown of your avatar, and click on Create group:

You'll be prompted to choose a group name, a handle, and a plan:

Click on Create group, and done! Now you can create notebooks under your group's profile, or move existing notebooks from other profiles to your group.

Your group is going to get its own dashboard. You can switch between dashboards by using the Show notebooks for dropdown, in your dashboard view:

Add group members

You can add a member to a group via the group's settings.

From the group dashboard

If you are in the group's dashboard view, find the group settings in the dropdown under your avatar in the top right:

Clicking on the group settings a list of the group members,

From your personal dashboard

From your personal dashboard, go to your personal settings first from the dropdown under your avatar in the top right:

Then, find the group in your “Groups” section:

You'll get the list of group members to which you can add more.

Add notebooks to a group

You can create a new notebook for a group from the group's dashboard view, just like you do to create a notebook under your own profile.

To move an existing notebook from your profile (or another group) to a group, open the notebook in the Nextjournal Editor, then open the Share dropdown at the top right, and change the This notebook belongs to... option:

Group notebooks permissions

Anyone that belongs in the group can edit and publish the group's notebooks.

Collaborate with individuals on a notebook

Permission to edit and publish a notebook can be given on a person-by-person basis.

To add a collaborator for a notebook, first open the notebook in the Nextjournal Editor, and find the Collaborators Section after clicking on the Share dropdown at the top right:

Clicking on Add collaborators will bring you to a dialog where you can invite as many people as you'd like. If your invitations are accepted, the people you invited will be able to edit and publish the notebook.

Make a notebook public, or private

Your notebooks can be public or private. A public, published notebook can be read and remixed by anyone on the internet. A private, published notebook can be remixed only by those with permission.

To choose whether you would like to make your notebook public or private, go to the Notebook Visibility Section under the Share dropdown at the top right: