Publish the idea, keep the research private

Research is often untidy. You might save conflicting examples, write a blunt personal note or keep a transcript that helps you locate one moment in a video. None of that means it belongs in the version another person reads.

Publishing works better when it is a deliberate handoff. You choose the point, the evidence and the context a reader needs. The working library can keep doing a different job.

Start from the reader's question

Before sharing a collection or publishing a Post, describe what a reader should take away. Are you giving someone sources to explore, explaining an observation or asking for feedback on an argument?

A collection is useful when the sources themselves are the handoff. A Post gives you a place to shape your own explanation. Neither requires turning the rest of your library into a public profile.

Treat the public version as a snapshot

In Kepero, public views use reviewed publication snapshots. New material and changes intended for publication need Publish changes. Personal notes and transcripts are excluded from public material and collection views; a collection's private description is excluded too.

A Post is separately authored text. Review what you write or paste into it: content you explicitly put into the Post body is part of that document. A privacy boundary cannot undo an intentional copy into a public draft.

Open the public view after publishing. Check the title, text, links and chosen media from the reader's perspective. Being signed in as the author is not a substitute for checking what an anonymous reader can see.

Understand what removal changes

Hiding or deleting a saved material revokes its individual public link. Removing or hiding a collection member removes it from the collection's public view without waiting for another publication. Restoring it does not silently revive the previous individual link.

A published Post has its own snapshot. Changing a source material does not automatically retract content already included in that Post. If the change matters to readers, review, update or turn off the Post's link separately.

Keep private context useful

Private notes can contain reminders, doubts and unfinished thinking. Keeping them separate is useful even when they contain nothing sensitive: it lets the public version focus on the reader instead of exposing the author's entire process.

Choose sources you can appropriately share and include only the context needed to understand your point. Revoking a link stops new access through Kepero; it cannot remove copies that someone has already kept, and search engines may take time to update a previously indexed result.

For the exact controls and differences between materials, collections and Posts, read Sharing and privacy. Then review the public version as carefully as you reviewed the idea.