Publishing & Sharing Folios

This guide walks you through publishing a folio so anyone can view it with a link — no Obvious account required.

Publish a folio

Open the folio you want to share.
Click the Share icon in the toolbar. The publish dialog opens.
Choose an access mode — Public or PIN Protected (details below).
Click Publish. The published URL appears in the toolbar.

Tip: After editing a folio, click Share and publish again to push the changes live. The URL stays the same.

Access modes

Public

Anyone with the link can view the folio. No login, no PIN. Use this for reports, landing pages, or anything you'd share openly.

PIN protected

Viewers enter a 4-digit PIN before they can see the folio. When you select PIN Protected, four input boxes appear — enter your digits and publish. Share the PIN separately from the link.

Republishing later? Leave the PIN field empty to keep the current one. Obvious carries it forward automatically.

Set a custom slug

By default, your folio URL uses an internal ID: folio.obvious.ai/art_abc123. If your workspace has an org slug, you can make it readable.

In the publish dialog, find the Link section and click Customize. Enter a slug — lowercase, alphanumeric, hyphens allowed, 50 characters max. Your URL becomes:

folio.obvious.ai/your-org/your-slug

Click Remove to revert to the artifact ID.

Note: Custom slugs require a workspace org slug. No Customize option? Ask a workspace admin to set one in Settings → Workspace.

Unpublish a folio

Open the version selector dropdown in the toolbar. Hover over the version you want to remove and click the trash icon. Confirm the deletion.

The link stops working immediately. Your folio content in Obvious is unaffected — only the published version is removed.

Update publish settings

Want to change the access mode, PIN, or slug without publishing a new version? Click the settings icon (gear) in the toolbar. Make your changes and click Update.

The published URL appears in the toolbar. Click it to copy. Share it anywhere — email, Slack, a document. Recipients see a standalone web page that works on any device.

Next steps

Creating a Folio — Build and customize a folio from scratch.
Embed External Content — Bring outside webpages into your project.
Documents Overview — Work with markdown documents in Obvious.