Rabbit holes and the Trail

• What it was about, and what started it: the question, article, or moment that sent you in.
• The Trail: the pages you went through, in order, including the branches you took along the way.
• What happened, and optionally what you came away with: the one thing you'd tell a friend.
• Optional details: the question you were trying to answer, how long it took, topics, and a cover image.

A cover is a picture from your device, added in the composer when you post the rabbit hole and uploaded to White Rabbit with it. Covers are kept private: only people who can see the rabbit hole can see its cover, so changing who can see the rabbit hole changes who can see its cover too.

With the browser extension connected and Rabbit turned on, the rabbit holes Rabbit finds in your browsing show up on Home as Looks like you went down a rabbit hole, or, after days away, While you were away, Rabbit found 3 rabbit holes.

1. Select Review & share. The composer opens with a draft: a title, where it started and ended, the Trail, suggested topics, and how long it took.
2. Edit anything. Remove pages you'd rather not include, reorder them, and add what you came away with.
3. Choose who can see it, then post it. Nothing is visible to anyone until you do.

Save privately keeps it only for you. Ignore puts it aside, and it may come back if Rabbit finds it again. Delete gets rid of it for good: Rabbit never offers or reads those visits again in this browser.

1. Select + in the navigation, then Write a rabbit hole.
2. Answer the three questions: what it was about, what started it, and what happened.
3. Paste the links you followed. You can paste many at once. White Rabbit fetches a preview of each and suggests an order, branches, and topics.
4. Add any details you want, choose who can see it, and post.

If you close the composer before posting, your draft is kept for next time, and + offers Continue your draft instead.

To keep a single link for later, paste it under +, add a note if you like, and select Save privately. It becomes a private rabbit hole with that one page, which only you can see, saved to your Bookmarks.

A rabbit hole stays open after it's posted. When you find more, add it to the same Trail instead of starting over.

• Select Add pages above the Trail, or More (⋯) and Add to this rabbit hole. Paste one link or several, and choose which step they continue from. By default that's where the Trail has got to.
• To branch, select a step on the Trail and choose Add from here.
• From anywhere: select +, paste the link, change New private rabbit hole to the rabbit hole, and select Add to trail. It goes at the end of the Trail. On a rabbit hole you're on, + has it chosen already.
• From your phone: on Android, install White Rabbit as an app from Chrome's menu, then in any app use Share → White Rabbit, pick the rabbit hole under Add to a trail, and select Add to trail. On iPhone, copy the link, open White Rabbit, select +, and paste it.
• With the browser extension connected and Rabbit turned on, Home shows You kept going when Rabbit finds your browsing carries on a rabbit hole you're on. Add puts the new pages on its Trail. Nothing is added until you choose to.

A rabbit hole that grew moves back up the feed with a line like Grew by 4 pages. People who liked, saved, or commented on it, and everyone on it, get one notification for each batch of additions, not one per page.

To edit your note on a page you added, or remove it, select the step and choose More (⋯). A page someone forked from or was handed in a relay can't be removed, because they built on it.

Several people can build one rabbit hole: one post, one Trail, and every page shows who added it.

• From a conversation: select + next to the message box, then Start a rabbit hole together. The people in the conversation are already picked. It appears in the chat, and you can add a link from any message with Add to Rabbit Hole.
• From the composer: select People and choose who's going down it with you.
• On one that's already out: select More (⋯), then Invite people.
• With a link: in People → Invite people, select Copy link under Invite with a link. Anyone with it can join for 7 days, up to 25 people, making an account first if they need one. Its page shows who sent it and how many people and pages it has, and what it's called, except to someone signed out when it's private. Select Turn off to stop it.
• Ask to join. On a rabbit hole you can see, tap Ask to join (or More (⋯) → Ask to join), add a note if you like, and Ask. Whoever started it is told, and anyone on it can let you in. If they say not now, you can ask again after 30 days; an ask nobody answers ends after 14 days.

Everyone you choose gets an invite, in their notifications and on the rabbit hole itself (and on its card in the conversation, if it started there). They can see it while they decide, and join with Accept or say no with Decline. Until they accept they're listed as invited under People, where anyone on it can take the invite back. Whoever started it sees there how many invite links are open, and can turn them off. Someone they removed can't come back by a link.

Started with other people, a rabbit hole can begin as just a question, with no pages yet. It shows in feeds once it has its first page.

Add pages and branches

Whoever started itYes

People adding to itYes

Rename, move, or remove a page

Whoever started itAny page

People adding to itAny page

A page's note

Whoever started itPages they added

People adding to itPages they added

Invite people

Whoever started itYes

People adding to itYes

Turn off invite links

Whoever started itAnyone's

People adding to itTheir own

Answer asks to join

Whoever started itYes

People adding to itYes

Remove people

Whoever started itYes

People adding to itNo

Leave

Whoever started itYes, once someone else is on it

People adding to itYes

Title, story, topics

Whoever started itYes

People adding to itYes

Who can see it

Whoever started itYes

People adding to itNo

Delete the rabbit hole

Whoever started itYes

People adding to itNo

Everyone on a rabbit hole can always see it. Set to Just the people on it, nobody else can. Followers and Close friends mean those of whoever started it. Hover the faces on a shared rabbit hole to see who's on it, and use the arrows to move between people.

To leave, open People and select Leave. The pages you added stay. If you started it, the person who's been on it longest takes it over, including who can see it and removing people.

Open any rabbit hole to see its Trail. On a computer it's a map: the main path runs down the middle and branches step out to the side where they split off. Switch to List for a timeline. On a phone, the Trail is always a timeline.

Select any step to see it up close: what the page is, what kind of source it appears to be, who added it, why it mattered, and who continued from there. From a step you can open the page, fork from it, or pass it on.

Changing the Trail. If you're on a rabbit hole, select a step, then More (⋯): Rename, Move up, Move down, Comes from… (pick the step it continues from), or Remove from trail. Moving a step moves just that step: the step after it joins up with the one before, so the trail stays connected. On a computer you can also drag a step on the map. While you drag, every other step shows a dot on each side: drop on the top dot to put it just before that step, the bottom dot for just after, or the left or right dot to branch off that step on that side. In the timeline, drag the ⠿ handle onto a step or between two steps. Each move shows Undo.

Every rabbit hole has a board: an open canvas where its Trail's pages are cards and the lines between them are the Trail. On a computer, choose Board above the Trail, then Open board; on a phone, tap Board above the Trail. You can also go to the rabbit hole's link with `/board` on the end.

• Add sticky notes, text, shapes, arrows, drawings, images, and links. Paste or drop a link to make a link card; select it and choose Add to the Trail to make it a page.
• Change the Trail by dragging the start of a line onto another page card: the page at its end now comes from there. Only that page moves; the page after it takes its place, so the trail stays connected. Moving cards around only arranges the board.
• Select a page card to see the page up close, the same as on the map. On a phone, tap the card; dragging it just moves it.
• Delete a page card to remove the page from the Trail. You'll be asked first.
• Right-click an item or the board (on a phone, touch and hold) to cut, copy, paste, duplicate, bring to front, or send to back. Items paste onto any board, and a copied page card pastes as a link card.
• Add a Trail or board from the toolbar or by right-clicking the board, then search for it and choose Link (a live card that stays up to date; Open goes to it) or Copy (its items, yours to change). Right-click a live card and choose Copy its items here to swap it for a copy. People who can't see what a card shows see Not available.
• Tap Ask Rabbit (or press /) and type or speak: sort notes into themes, tidy up, make a mind map or timeline, connect pages, or ask about the board. One Undo takes back its changes to the board. Ask Rabbit is part of Plus.
• Everyone on the rabbit hole (whoever started it and the people who accepted an invite, joined with an invite link, or were let in after asking) edits the board together. Anyone who can see the rabbit hole can open the board to look around.
• See who's here. Everyone signed in with the board open, looking around or editing, sees who else is here and their cursors. If you look around without signing in, you aren't shown.

• Catch me up summarizes a rabbit hole in one or five minutes.
• How I got here tells the story from start to end, with the turning points in between.
• Sources are grouped by kind, with notes on how they relate: an apparent original, pages that may lean on it, and places they disagree.

Every point links back to the Trail steps it came from, shown as small numbered chips, so you can check it yourself. See AI features for who writes these summaries.

• Like, Comment, Fork, Save, and Share sit under every rabbit hole.
• Save adds it to your Bookmarks, which only you can see.
• To change the title, story, or topics, select More (⋯) and choose Edit details. Everyone on a rabbit hole can. Only whoever started it changes who can see it.
• To edit a comment you wrote, select Edit under it. Edited comments say Edited. Select it, or rest the pointer on it, to open its Edit history: its earlier versions, and when each was written. Anyone who can see the comment can see its history.
• Once Rabbit has answered a comment, it can't be edited, so the answer always fits what was asked.
• Whoever started a rabbit hole, and everyone on it, can remove anyone's comment on it: choose Remove comment in the comment's menu. See Blocking, reporting, and limits.
• To delete one of your rabbit holes, select More (⋯) on it and choose Delete rabbit hole. This can't be undone. Forks other people made from it stay theirs.