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TEAMS AND HOUSEHOLDS

The same words for the same places.

One shared list of keywords, kept in a Google Sheet or a file your team already uses. Everyone types the same word, and when an address changes, it changes once, for all of them.

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Free for up to 30 people; larger organisations: see Pricing. Ready-made lists for IT admins, HR, marketing and teams: keyword templates.

01 / THE JOB

Nobody asks for the link again.

Every team has a handful of places everyone needs: the handbook, the ticket queue, the roadmap, this week's board. The job is to give everyone the same way to reach them, and to keep it right when they move.

THE PROBLEM

Links everywhere, none of them current.

  • Links live in chats, docs and bookmarks, and nobody knows which copy is the right one.
  • Someone asks "what's the link for…?" every week, and someone else stops to answer.
  • An address changes, and half the team keeps the old one.
THE JOB WYRD DOES

One list, the same words for everyone.

  • One list of keywords, kept where the team already works: a Google Sheet, a GitHub file or any https file.
  • The same words for everyone: > team/handbook, > team/tickets 4821.
  • Change an address once, in the list, and everyone has the new one at their next refresh.
Four Wyrd characters from one team, each labelled with the shared keywords they use > team/runbook > team/onboarding > team/handbook > team/dashboard > team/tickets > team/schedule
Two Wyrd characters from one team working late at a laptop, each labelled with the shared keywords they use > team/dashboard > team/tickets > team/schedule
team/ is one list: everyone types the same keywords, and an address changes in one place.
02 / SET UP

Set up your team in 10 minutes.

Four steps for whoever looks after the team's links. No programming for a Google Sheet, no server to run, and no Wyrd accounts to hand out.

  1. Start a list from the template

    Download the template: a CSV file with the columns Keyword, URL, Description and Category, and a few placeholder rows to replace with your own. Import it into a new Google Sheet (File → Import), or keep it as a CSV file on GitHub or on your own https server.

    A URL with %s is a search: the words typed after the keyword go there. The row !namespace with team in its URL cell recommends the name everyone types, so the whole team ends up with team/handbook.

    Download the template (CSV) ↓ or start from a template for your kind of team →

  2. Share it

    A Google Sheet: share it with the team (Viewer is enough for reading), open the tab that holds the list, and copy the address from the address bar. If someone's preview says "No access" although they can open the sheet, publish the tab instead (File → Share → Publish to web, the tab, Comma-separated values) and hand out that link. Anyone who has that link can read the list.

    A file on GitHub: put it in a repository (a private one is recommended) and copy the file's address on its branch, …/blob/main/…. Each reader uses the GitHub sign-in in their browser, or a read-only token.

  3. Everyone subscribes in Wyrd

    Send the invite link. Subscribe yourself, then press Copy invite link on the list's row in Shared lists and send it to the team. Opening it in a browser with Wyrd fills in the list's address on their Shared lists page; nothing is read or subscribed until they press Preview and then Subscribe. If their view cannot take the list, a banner says which view can and switches only when they press it. The link holds the list's address and never a token; for people who do not have Wyrd yet, send the address too.

    Or paste the address: each person opens Shared lists (in the Teams view, under Settings → View), pastes the address, presses Preview and then Subscribe.

    Chrome asks once whether Wyrd may read the list's site (for a Google Sheet, docs.google.com and googleusercontent.com). The name the list recommends is filled in, so > team/handbook works the same for everyone.

  4. Change it in one place

    Edit the sheet or the file. Wyrd re-reads every list every 6 hours, when Chrome starts, and when someone presses Refresh, and notes which keywords were added, changed or removed.

    A teammate's own keyword always wins; the list's version stays reachable with the list's name, > team/wiki. To let people add links, link a Google Form to the sheet and put its pre-filled link in a !contribute row: Wyrd then offers Add to this list.

For a household. The same works for a family: a Google Sheet shared with the family and subscribed in Wyrd's Family & Friends view (up to 5 lists), with a Google Form for adding links. Everyone types > family/doctor, and when the school portal moves, one person changes it.

03 / FOR IT ADMINS

Preset the list for everyone.

If your organisation manages Chrome, a Chrome policy for Wyrd can give everyone the same shared lists without anybody subscribing by hand.

  • One policy, SharedLists. Up to 10 lists, each with an https address, a namespace and an optional label. It is a policy for Wyrd, not a permission: installing or updating Wyrd shows no extra warning.
  • Set by your organisation. The lists appear on everyone's Shared lists page, marked that way, before their own lists. People cannot remove, move or rename them; their own keywords still win.
  • Public addresses only. A preset list is read without the browser's sign-in and without a token: a Google Sheet published to the web as CSV, a file in a public GitHub repository, or a file on an intranet server that does not ask for a login.
  • Each person allows the site once. Chrome still asks every person whether Wyrd may read the list's site: they press Grant access on the list's row once after the rollout.
The policy value, where it goes, and how to check it in chrome://policy. Preset lists in the docs →
04 / QUESTIONS

What team leads ask.

Short answers here; file formats, namespaces, tokens and refresh in full in Shared lists in the docs.

How do teammates subscribe?
Send them the list's invite link: Copy invite link on the list's row in Wyrd's Shared lists page. Opening it fills in the list's address in their Wyrd, and nothing is read or subscribed until they press Preview and then Subscribe. The link holds the list's address, never a token; for a sheet published to the web, anyone with that address can read the list, so send it only to people who may.
Does everyone need an account?
No Wyrd account. Wyrd has no server, so it never decides who may read a list: the place that keeps the file does, exactly as when someone opens it in a browser tab. That is the sheet's sharing, the repository's members, or your own server's rules.
Who can change the list?
Whoever can edit the sheet or push to the file, and anyone allowed to submit the sheet's Google Form. Anyone who can edit a list can repoint a keyword for everyone subscribed, so keep editors few and read Wyrd's notes on what changed.
What happens when someone leaves the team?
Stop sharing the sheet, or remove them from the repository. When their Wyrd is refused a second time, usually about an hour after the first refusal, it removes the list's keywords from their browser; a revoked token takes effect at the first refresh.
What if a teammate's own keyword has the same name?
Their own keyword wins, always. The list's version stays reachable through the list's name, > team/wiki or > team wiki, and the Clashes panel on the Shared lists page shows every keyword that exists in more than one place.
Can I paste > team/wiki into an email?
Not as a link: a shared keyword works in a browser that has Wyrd and is subscribed to the list; it is not a public web address. Copy share link gives teammates with the same list an address that opens Wyrd's confirmation page for that keyword, and Copy invite link gives them the list itself.
Every detail, for team leads and IT admins. Shared lists in the docs →Compare the ways to share links →More in the FAQ →