Scenario: you created a document and shared it publicly via URL. Now, what’s your opinion on whether should anonymous visitors see the document with default view settings or your view settings?
They should use my view settings
They shouldn’t use my view settings automatically, I need to enable this behavior
They shouldn’t use my view settings ever because it’s my private settings
Just to comment on this, the implication is that when you view someone else’s note, you’ll see it as he/she sees it too, which is not what you’re used to.
this is exactly what happens when you give to users to much power. remove user font choise - and you’ll get rid of the problem. I think it is the best solution so far.
I don’t understand why user font choice is to blame? Most of the options under Settings - Preferences - Appearance affect how a document looks. Try them out and you’ll see.
I would guess from the point of view of promoting your brand, having anonymous users see your default viewing options is best.
That said, it would be nice to allow (presumably a pro-only feature) users to enable a different view setting if desired. One use case would be when embedding dynalist documents into another website—allowing a user to specify the viewing options would allow the embed to blend in better. Probably though this feature has limited use until the ability to use custom CSS is allowed (which as I understand it is a separate feature currently under consideration.)
Would it make sense to set it to default to the note author’s settings but have an option in the guest viewer’s “view options” to view in default layout?
Personally, I would like to know how it looks to the recipient. If I’m viewing it in article format and I share it, I don’t want to explain to them that they have to go into view options and tick “article”.
See, I don’t know how it would be implemented technically. But would it sync similar to how it does when you’re editing content? Even if it required a page refresh to see the view settings changes, that would still be great.