Your domain.
Your brand.
A workspace keeps your team's documents and files in folders, with a role for everyone, and publishes them from your own domain, under your own name.
- Your own hostname, like docs.example.com
- Your name and favicon in the tab
- Your colour across the page
- Your brand on link previews
Welcome to the team. This guide covers your first week: your accounts, the tools we use, and who to ask when you are stuck.
- Set up your laptop and accounts
- Read the engineering handbook
- Ship your first change
Your domain, from two DNS records.
Add a hostname you control, paste two records where your DNS lives, then choose Check DNS. Nothing changes for readers until both are in place.
- An ownership record (TXT) proves it's yours; a routing record (CNAME, or A for an apex) points it here.
- Your DNS provider, spotted: Cloudflare and others get the values written the way they expect.
- Up to 25 domains a workspace, and every markdrop.in link keeps working.
- Kept honest: if the records stop pointing here for three days, the domain stops serving until you fix them.
Recorded in Markdrop's workspace settings, with fictional data.
Your name on every page.
On your domain, pages carry your site name, logo, favicon and colour, and so do the previews people paste in chats.
- Logo and favicon: PNG, JPEG, WebP or GIF, saved as soon as they upload.
- Your accent colour for buttons, links and highlights. Leave it blank for Markdrop's blue.
- White-label preview cards: no “Published with Markdrop” on cards and titles.
- View only: no controls for signed-out visitors, on your own domains only.
Recorded in Markdrop's workspace settings, with fictional data.
Your team, with a role each.
Invite people by email. Nobody joins until they accept, and an invitation only works for the address it was sent to.
- Can view, Can edit, Admin, Owner: one role across the workspace, up to 200 members.
- Open, Team or Locked. Locked makes visitors sign in on every address, markdrop.in links included.
- Folders, 8 levels deep, shape the addresses (docs.acme.com/guides/setup). They never grant access.
Recorded in Markdrop's workspace settings, with fictional data.
Check what anyone else sees.
Each item is open to Only people added, the Acme team, or Anyone with the link. People you add by email always get in.
- Preview as a visitor, a member or a named email, with the reason each hidden item is hidden.
- A shared folder link lists only what each visitor could already open.
- Sign-in on your domain is read-only, works on that one domain and lasts 12 hours.
Recorded in Markdrop's workspace settings, with fictional data.
What admins see, and what they don't.
Admins run people, domains and branding. They don't get into anyone's own files.
- End-to-end encryption for documents: sealed in the browser, the key stays in the link.
- Delete the workspace and every item goes back to its owner, with the same link and analytics.
Workspace admins can see
- What's filed in the workspaceThe items the team can open, by folder.
- Who belongs, and each roleMembers and pending invitations.
- Domains, branding and privacyOnly admins and the owner change them.
They never see
- A member's own filesNothing moves into a workspace until its owner puts it there.
- Items set to Only people addedNot even admins, and no analytics for items they don't own.
- The text of an encrypted documentThe key never reaches our servers; signing in never unlocks it.
Worth knowing: a subdomain like docs.acme.com is simplest (an apex domain needs an A record). View only applies on your own domains, never on markdrop.in.
Put your name on it.
Create a workspace, add your domain and invite your team. Or tell us what you need first.
Or write to himanshu@markdrop.in