Work with others
Invite teammates, understand roles and share the right research material.
Use a project’s People page to invite someone by email or controlled link. Choose a role before sending. Project roles determine who can edit settings, add or organize papers, change writings, share notes and manage other members. If an action is unavailable, ask the project owner or an authorized member to check your role.
An invitation can be accepted, declined, resent or revoked. Links can be rotated or disabled. If an invitee needs to sign up, Distari returns them to the pending invitation after account creation.
Join or share during setup
If an invitation brought you to Distari, accept it and use that shared project in guided setup. You do not need to create a second project. A step that needs permission you do not have, such as adding a paper, is passed over.
The setup rail’s Copy invite link enables and copies a project invitation link when your role allows managing it. You choose where to share it; copying sends no email or other message. Got it continues without inviting anyone. Use People to review the role, rotate or disable a link, or send an email invitation deliberately.
Invite within the available places
A Free-owned project can have two people: the owner and one other. Unexpired pending invitations reserve places; ownership-transfer offers do not. Join links refuse new people when both places are used. Pro- and Lab-owned projects have unlimited members. Anyone can join another person’s project on either plan. If the owner’s Pro ends, existing members stay; new invitations and joins stop until a place is available. See Plans and credits.
On the web People page, Invite by email checks how many new people fit before sending. If one place is available and you enter two valid new addresses, it says You can invite 1 more person on Free and disables Send 2 invites. Remove an address, then choose Send invite. The remaining address, chosen role and optional note stay in the form. Invalid addresses, duplicate chips and people who are already members or invited do not use an additional place.
Wait for the available places to load before sending. If that check fails, choose Try again. If availability changes before you send, a dialog explains the current limit and links to Fair use and limits. Your addresses stay in the form so you can correct the batch and retry. To free a reserved place, revoke its pending invitation or remove a member if your role allows it; the owner can also upgrade to Pro.
Know what others can see
The workspace shows project members who are online and which mode, paper, writing or file they have open. It does not reveal the content of your private annotations. Members editing the same writing file see selections and named cursors. Changes in that file merge live; ordinary notes do not have live co-editing.
Notes are private to their author by default. An authorized author may share one with the project, making it readable by other members while keeping editing with the author. Keep research notes explains this boundary.
Keep the project under control
The People page also shows invitations, membership and recent paper or writing activity. Owners can transfer ownership through a confirmed flow: the other person is asked first, and it changes hands when they accept. A project has one open offer at a time, so offering it to someone else withdraws the first offer. Projects can be archived and restored; archiving pauses editing while keeping the work available to authorized members.