Module 10 · Level 3 · 20 min

Publish it protected, publish a whole folder

The same publishing you already know, with two additions that change what it is for: a passphrase in front, and a way to know who opened it.

A passphrase in front of the page

When you publish, you can set a passphrase. Visitors type it before anything is shown — the map's text is not sitting in the page waiting behind a curtain.

Use at least 8 characters — “a short passphrase protects nothing.”

Use it for a proposal, a plan with numbers in it, anything you would not want indexed. And remember the rule from the ten rules: without a passphrase, a published map is not discreet, it is public.

Knowing who opened it

There is a mode built for independents: visitors type their email next to the passphrase, and you see who opened it. The list exports as a CSV that imports straight into Brevo, Mailchimp or Kit.

That is a lead magnet with no website, no form builder and no landing page — a map worth reading, an address, and a list.

Edition	Emails you can collect
Starter	—
Creator	500
Studio	5 000

The list does not expire with the page. A published page goes quiet after 90 days unless you publish again — but the addresses are attached to your licence, not to the map. A mailing list that evaporated after three months would not be a mailing list.

Publishing a whole folder

🌐 Publish folder puts a whole library at one address: a small site of maps, with its own preview image. Useful for a course, a handbook, a client space, a set of templates you hand out.

Up to 40 maps in one published folder.
Up to 10 published folders per licence — counted separately from your pages, so a folder of twelve maps does not eat half your page allowance.
The same 90-day clock: publish again and it resets.

The door you can open without noticing

A published page can be opened for changes — and what authorises the person editing is not your licence. It is the link plus the passphrase. Anyone who has both can write.

That is exactly what you want for a colleague and exactly what you do not want for a prospect. Two different passphrases for two different purposes, and never reuse the collaboration one in a proposal.

Your turn

Build one map genuinely worth someone's email — a checklist, a framework filled in for your trade — publish it with a passphrase and email capture, and put the link where your people are.

That is the last module, and it is the one that pays for the licence: not a map you keep, a map that brings someone back.