Web Console (console.nimbalyst.com)
Open your team's shared documents in a browser at console.nimbalyst.com, edit them live with teammates, leave comments, and manage your organization.
The Nimbalyst Web Console at console.nimbalyst.com opens your team's shared documents in a browser. Nothing needs to be installed, and it uses the same collaboration service and permissions as the desktop app.
It exists so the people who need to read and respond to your work do not need to become Nimbalyst users first. Write a plan in the desktop app, share it with your team, and a teammate can open the link, follow your live edits, and leave comments from any browser.
They can edit it too. Editing runs in both directions: a teammate with edit access types straight into the same document you are in, and their changes land in your desktop app as they make them. You each see the other's cursor while you work.
What you can do in a browser
Open shared documents. Browse your organization's shared document tree, folders, and projects. Every shared document opens, whatever its type.
Edit live. Shared markdown documents are fully editable, with everyone's changes syncing in real time. Other document types open as editable source text.
See who else is here. Live labeled cursors show each teammate editing alongside you, colored per person.
Comment on the text. Select a passage, add a comment, reply, resolve, and mention teammates with
@.Manage your organization. Billing, roles, invitations, security posture, and organization lifecycle.
The browser is a companion to the desktop app rather than a replacement for it. See What the browser cannot do for the specifics.
Signing in
The console uses the same account as the desktop app. Two ways in:
Continue with email sends a magic link to your work address.
Continue with Google uses your connected Google identity.
If your account belongs to more than one organization, you choose which one to open after signing in. You can switch organizations later from the profile menu at the bottom of the left navigation, without signing in again.
Browser sessions last seven days and are scoped to one signed-in account.
If you follow a link to a document while signed out, the console remembers where you were headed and returns you there after you sign in.
Accepting an invitation
When an organization admin invites you by email, the invitation link brings you to the console, accepts your membership, and lands you on the team's shared documents so you can start reading and editing right away. The desktop app is offered alongside, with a download link if you do not have it yet, for the work only it can do.
Working in shared documents
The left navigation has two modes: Shared Docs and Organization.
In Shared Docs you get a document tree on the left, a tab strip across the top for the documents you have open, and a breadcrumb showing organization, project, folder, and document. The tree and the comments panel are both resizable by dragging their edges, or with the arrow keys once a handle is focused. Double-click a handle to reset it.
If your organization has several projects, the project switcher sits at the top of the tree and shows how many shared documents each one holds.
Your open tabs, panel widths, and last-used project are remembered in the browser, so returning to the console puts you back where you were.
Editing together
Shared markdown documents are live, with images rendering in place. Above the document, a status pill reports the connection (Live, Connecting, Reconnecting, Offline, or Read-only) and a save chip reports whether your changes are saved. Rapid consecutive edits, such as retyping a spreadsheet cell, save in order so the latest value always wins.
The document stays hidden until the first sync completes, so you never type into what looks like an empty document while the server copy is still loading.
Each teammate editing with you appears as a colored cursor labeled with their name. Screen readers announce people joining, leaving, and editing.
Edits go both ways. Anyone whose organization role allows it can type into the document from the browser, and those changes reach the desktop app and every other open browser as they happen. Viewers and guests are held to reading.
Commenting
Select any text in the document and choose Add comment. Comments dock in a panel on the right, which you can toggle from the floating comments button. The button carries a count when the panel is closed.
Reply to a thread, then Resolve it once it is handled.
Type
@in the composer to mention a teammate.Mentioned teammates are notified.
Commenting depends on your organization role. Owners, admins, and members can write comments. Viewers and guests can read but not comment. Comments are also withdrawn on any document the server has made read-only for you.
Opening in the desktop app
Every document has an Open in desktop link in its status bar that hands the document off to Nimbalyst on your machine. A document that opens as source text offers the same handoff more prominently, since its visual editor lives in the desktop app.
Organization administration
Switch the left navigation to Organization for five sections:
Overview
Your role, membership type, and every project in the organization
Billing
Current plan, status, seat count, and period end; seat changes and payment management run through the billing provider, and the console never sees card details
Roles and members
The member list, each person's role, role changes, member removal, and email invitations
Security
Data custody mode, encryption key epoch and fingerprint, and the twenty most recent organization audit events
Danger zone
Merge this organization into another, or delete it permanently
Deleting an organization requires typing its exact name. Role changes and every other privileged write are checked again by the collaboration service, so the console never grants access on its own.
What the browser cannot do
The console is deliberately narrower than the desktop app. Today:
Rich editing is for markdown. Shared markdown documents open in the full editor. Every other shared document, including mockups, diagrams, data models, mind maps, spreadsheets, and code files, opens as editable source text, so nothing shared is out of reach in a browser. The visual editors for those types remain in the desktop app.
Tracker boards stay in the desktop app. The Radar digest of shared tracker activity is available in the browser, but the boards themselves do not open there.
Documents above 8 MiB of collaborative state are too large for a browser tab and offer a desktop handoff instead.
No document history or version view.
No export or embedding.
No promoting a local file to the team. Sharing a local file to your organization happens in the desktop app.
No personal (non-team) documents, and no read receipts.
No creating projects or organizations. The console works with organizations and projects that already exist.
Troubleshooting
No access to this organization
The link points at an organization your account cannot open. Check you signed in with the right address.
Organization access was removed
Your membership ended while you had the document open. Live access stops immediately.
Document not found
The document was deleted, or it left the project you have access to.
Your session expired
Sign in again. Your destination is preserved.
Shared documents are unavailable
The collaboration service could not be reached. Your route is kept, so a retry returns you to the same place.
This document is too large to edit in a browser
Nothing is lost. Open it in the desktop app, which has no such limit.
This document is now read-only
The server rejected an edit. The rejected change was not saved.
This document could not be opened
The first sync did not complete. Nothing you type would be saved, so editing stays off until the connection returns. Try again retries it.
If a sign-in link fails, it has usually been used already or expired. Request a fresh one.
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