Members & sharing
Invite people, assign roles, and control who can see each part of a space.
A space is a shared workspace built around one knowledge graph. Two independent controls decide who can open it, edit it, and see what's inside:
- Membership — who belongs to the space, and at what role.
- Visibility — how widely each individual resource is exposed.
This article covers both, plus how to open a space up for public, read-only viewing.
Invite members by email
Open Members in space settings. If you have permission to manage members, an Invite humans panel appears at the top. Type the person's email address, pick the role they should start with, and click Invite.
The person then receives a pending invitation. Until they accept, they appear in a separate Pending invites section marked "Invite sent" and don't yet count as a member. While they're pending, you can still change their role or revoke the invite.
On the free plan a space has a limited number of seats. If you have reached the seat cap, the invite field is disabled and you will see a prompt to upgrade.
Roles
Every member has a role that determines what they can do across the whole space. Roles are ordered from most to least privileged:
| Role | What it can do |
|---|---|
| Owner | Full control: settings, deletion, public access, members, and all content. Exactly one per space. |
| Admin | Everything an owner can do except final ownership transfer — manages settings, members, and content. |
| Editor | Creates and edits nodes, edges, threads, and views. The default role for new members. |
| Viewer | Read-only — can view content and react, but not edit. |
| Guest | The most limited role, used for outside collaborators and visitors to a public space. |
A role also controls what a member can see, through visibility levels (explained in Per-resource visibility below). Higher roles can see more tightly-scoped content; guests only ever see content marked Open.
To change someone's role, open Members, find their row, and pick a new role from the dropdown next to their name. The owner's role can't be changed in place — to move ownership, use the transfer flow.
Remove a member
In the Members list, open a member's actions (the ellipsis menu or right-click) and choose Remove member. They immediately lose access to the space and its content. You can't remove the owner — transfer ownership first. Removing yourself is the same as leaving the space.
Transfer ownership
Ownership can be handed to another member from Space Settings → Danger Zone → Transfer ownership. Pick the new owner from the list of existing members. They become the owner with full rights, and you step down to admin — you stay in the space rather than losing access.
On a paid space, transferring ownership does not move billing. The subscription stays on your card. To hand off billing as well, cancel the subscription and let the new owner resubscribe on their own. You also can't leave a paid space directly while you own it — transfer ownership first.
Per-resource visibility
Membership decides who is in the space. Visibility decides who can see each individual resource within it — a node, a view, and so on. Every resource carries one of three levels:
- Open — visible to everyone who can reach the space, including guests and (on a public space) anonymous visitors.
- Internal — visible to members, but hidden from guests.
- Restricted — hidden from everyone except owners and admins, unless a member is granted access individually.
New content inherits the space's default node visibility, set under Space Settings → Visibility. Which default to choose depends on the space:
- Internal — the recommended default for most team workspaces.
- Open — suits public knowledge bases.
- Restricted — suits sensitive work where each item is shared deliberately.
Public, read-only spaces
A space can be opened to anyone on the internet as a read-only view. Under Space Settings → Public Access, choose Make Public and confirm. Naumu then gives you a shareable link (/spaces/<your-space>) you can copy.
When a space is public:
- Anyone with the link can view content marked Open — no account required.
- Internal and Restricted content stays hidden from the public.
- Visitors browse in a read-only mode; nothing they do edits the graph.
- Editing still requires being an invited member with an editing role.
To reverse this at any time, choose Make Private, which returns the space to invite-only access.
Related
- Spaces — creating, describing, and managing a space.
- Nodes & edges — the content whose visibility you control.