Choose a link for your document

Every document and file has an address. By default Markdrop picks a short random one, like markdrop.in/7Hk2mPq. You can choose your own instead, such as markdrop.in/q3-plan, and change it later.

In the editor, choose the Link chip (it says Random link until you set it) and type the part after markdrop.in/. Leave it blank for a short random link, made of 7 letters and digits that are hard to confuse (no 0, 1, O, I or l).

A link can be 3 to 50 characters long, using letters, numbers, hyphens (-) and underscores (_). Links are case-sensitive: markdrop.in/Q3-Plan and markdrop.in/q3-plan are different addresses.

When you upload a file, the link fills in from the file name. Q3 Board Deck.pdf becomes q3-board-deck: accents are folded (résumé → resume), spaces and punctuation become hyphens, and the result is cut to 40 characters. You can change it before you publish.

If someone else already uses the link, Markdrop says so and keeps everything you entered. Choose another one.

Some words are the addresses of Markdrop's own pages, so no document can use them. They include new, upload, share, login, dashboard, settings, builder, admin, api, mcp, privacy, shared, recent and requests, in any letter case. If you pick one, Markdrop asks you to choose another.

If you're signed in and own the document:

1. 1

   Open My files

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   Find the document in My files.

2. 2

   Choose Change URL

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   Open the row's menu and choose Change URL.

3. 3

   Type the new link

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   Type it after markdrop.in/ and choose Change URL.

For a file, you can also open it and choose More artifact actions › Settings, then edit Link and choose Save changes.

Views and analytics stay with the document.

The old address keeps pointing at the document for anyone who can open it: they're redirected to the new one. People who can't open the document get the same answer as before, and the old address never tells them the new one.

As long as the document exists, nobody else can take the old address. It stays attached to this document.

When a document is deleted or expires, its link is held for 30 days. During that time only you, as its owner, can publish at that address again. A document published without an account has no owner, so its link is held for everyone.

A document filed in a workspace that has its own domain also has an address there, made of the folder path and the link: docs.acme.com/guides/setup. The markdrop.in/setup address keeps working too. See Put your workspace on your own domain and Folders.

• Publish your first document
• Passwords and expiry