What Smoke never shows anyone else

Five things are yours alone. None of them is a setting, and none can be turned off.

1. Your own page and your drafts

Nobody else can open your page. A draft is private because of where it lives rather than because it carries a flag saying so.

2. Your mail and calendar

Nobody else can read your material under any configuration. This is not a check that could be missed: the way Smoke asks for exhaust takes only who is asking and has no way to name a subject, so requesting somebody else’s is not a request that can be formed.

Colleagues never see it, administrators never see it, and it never reaches a shared page. What a read draws from it reaches only you.

3. Smoke’s read of a page

Everybody on a page has their own read, and nobody sees anybody else’s. Two people on one page get different notes, because a read is written for one reader.

4. How I Work Best

Your own account of how you work stays yours until you publish it. It never enters anybody else’s context.

5. What you have said no to

Refusing something Smoke offered is between you and Smoke.

Why we can state this plainly

Most of it is not enforced by a rule that could be forgotten but by how the data is stored — under a key that is you. The test suite fails the build if that changes, and the privacy policy says the same things in the language a policy has to use.