Real-time collaboration

KOBI is designed for teams that think out loud. Realtime is not a bolt-on — it’s how every canvas works.

Presence

Once two or more people are on the same board you’ll see:

• Live cursors in each teammate’s color.
• Selection halos when someone is acting on a node.
• Edit halos with a soft glow during active edits.
• Avatars in the top-right of the canvas — click to follow that person’s viewport.

Conflict resolution

KOBI is engineered so two people can work in the same place without overwriting each other:

• Two people moving the same node end up at one of the two positions, never some weird middle.
• Two people editing the same text field merge their changes character-by-character.
• If you edit while offline, your edits sync the moment you reconnect.

Permissions

Roles control what each member can do:

• Owner — billing, member management, project deletion.
• Editor — edit canvases, manage knowledge, invite editors.
• Commenter — read everything, leave comments and reactions, no canvas writes.
• Viewer — read-only, no comments.

Roles are per-project. Per-board overrides are coming.

Sharing

From any board, click Share to:

• Generate a read-only link for a viewer who doesn’t have an account.
• Set an expiry on the link (24h, 7d, 30d).
• Restrict to specific email domains.

Shared sessions get a sandboxed view of the board only — they cannot navigate to other parts of your project.

Activity

The Activity panel logs significant events with timestamps and authors:

• Node added / deleted / restored.
• Document uploaded / re-indexed.
• Member invited / role changed.
• Sharing link created / revoked.

Filter by author, type, or time range.