Guides from the Snapy team

Guides on sharing PDFs, documents, and presentations as trackable links.

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How to Share a PDF as a Link: 4 Free Ways, Step by Step

Turn a PDF into a link with Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive or Snapy: the exact clicks, the permission traps, and how to know it was opened.

2026-10-075 min read
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How to Password Protect a PDF, Free and Paid

Four ways to put a password on a PDF: Acrobat, Preview on a Mac, Word on Windows and LibreOffice. Plus when a password on a link is the better choice.

2026-10-035 min read
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How to Share Files Without the Other Person Signing Up

Neither side creates an account. The recipient needs nothing at all, and the sender only types a one-time spam-blocking code on the first upload.

2026-10-015 min read
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Can You See Which Pages Someone Read in Your Document?

What Snapy actually records about page-by-page reading, read off the production code rather than the pricing page, and exactly where the free plan stops.

2026-10-015 min read
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How to Send a File That Is Too Large for Email

Gmail stops at 25MB and swaps the attachment for a Drive link on its own. Here is the best way to send a large file at every size, including what Gmail actually does above its limit.

2026-09-286 min read
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How to Deploy a Next.js Site for Free: 5 Options and Their Limits

Deploy Next.js free on Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, GitHub Pages or Snapy: which run server features, the real free limits, and static export steps.

2026-06-187 min read

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