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Collaboration

Sending lines to a co-writer

Move lyrics between writers on a shared song. Nothing arrives in someone's tab without them accepting it.

Your tab is yours alone, so getting a line from your tab into a co-writer's means sending it. They decide whether to take it.

That is the whole design. Nothing lands in anybody's lyrics without them agreeing to it.

Sending#

Open Arrange mode, the grid button at the bottom right, and select the lines you want. Tapping a section header takes the whole stanza.

Arrange mode on a shared song, with Send to Master and Send to Collaborator in the action bar 12
  1. 1Into the agreed version
  2. 2Into a co-writer's mailbox
A shared song adds two destinations to Arrange mode.

Send to Collaborator asks who should get them.

A sheet asking which collaborator should receive the selected lyrics
Pick a recipient, then Send.

On someone else's tab the action changes to Send to Me, which pulls their lines into your own tab instead. Same idea, other direction.

The mailbox#

Lines you are sent wait in the mailbox, the button in the editor toolbar. It carries a count when something is waiting.

The Mailbox showing a received set of lyrics from a co-writer with Decline and Accept 12
  1. 1Received and Sent are separate lists
  2. 2Read it before you decide
Nothing is added to your tab until you accept it.

Each card shows who sent it, which song it belongs to, when it arrived, and the lyrics themselves.

  • Accept adds them to your tab.
  • Decline turns them down, and the sender sees that it was declined.

Keeping track of what you sent#

The Sent tab lists everything you have sent and what happened to it.

Status What it means
Pending They have not looked at it yet.
Accepted It is in their tab.
Declined They passed.
Expired It sat too long.

Resend puts a declined or expired set back in front of them, and lets you pick a different recipient.

Sending to the agreed version instead#

Send to Master skips the mailbox entirely and puts the lines straight into the shared version. Nobody has to accept it, because Master is the song rather than anyone's personal tab. See The Master.