Notebook feature entwined years ago, cannot detangle
Notebook feature entwined years ago, cannot detangle
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Notebook
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By Jarissa on 12/07/2025
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Assigned to annapap9
Every time I open my Notebook, I see whatever content tree in his Notebook was most recently in use by my partner's account. However, as it is not MY Notebook, I am not authorized to see any of the actual content.
Bug Report: Notebook shared years ago by Jarissa
Also: if I do a Search for a specific phrase, results listed will include page names within my Partner's Notebook which I ought not be shown, because my account ought to have no access to them any more.
Search for a term within the world shows me Not My Notes by Jarissa
Every 3 to 5 years, I ask about whether someone could please manually detangle our Notebooks from one another. We would like to see our own content at the moment of access, and not have to go rooting around in the "Select or Create another notebook" pulldown menu for our own stuff.
More importantly: we're seeing SPOILERS in those page and section names. This drives us to rely on anything-but-World Anvil for our rough drafts creation.
Steps to Reproduce
I don't know what to tell you about how to reproduce this without a time machine. You would have to start with at least two accounts that have existed since the first half of 2018.
How I got here, collapsed inside a spoiler in case you don't want the verbose history from a non-coder.
When the Notebook feature was first introduced here on World Anvil lo these many years ago, C. B. Ash and I had the additional option to connect our Notebooks together. What a great way to share notes on collaborative GMing where the PCs can't access it! And we can use it even in the middle of an active session where one of us is currently a player!
Only slightly fewer years ago than that, the Notebook feature was upgraded ... and that upgrade removed the ability to share users' Notebooks with one another.
Also that upgrade removed the ability to disconnect them.
At the time, we were told that it might take a short while for the system to finish disconnecting itself. So we waited a couple of years. And then waited some more.
And then asked for help. I won't join Reddit but I did join that "trello" thing you were using for a while.
I was told that this "should not be happening" and then the bug was closed. Without fixing it.
A few years later, I was told that a backend change to World Anvil's Notebook and similar features was coming which would fix it; I should wait patiently. I can do that. I did that.
Recently I saw that thing about the major code exploit a Liquid Glass researcher found in some of the coding languages I have read in your updates.
This malfunction is not a showstopper by any means, but it DOES imply an exploitable security hole in World Anvil's wonderful connectivity. And I worry.
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- Notebook
- Search
- probably User Profiles?
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