Hey there, I'm new and was wondering how this site handles things like this. I'm always really paranoid about people "stealing" my work/ideas even though I know it's super unlikely. I don't expect it to be an actual issue (at least from real humans) but getting my fics and stuff ported to GoodReads and things like that is really frustrating… anyways, just wondering how that works here! Thanks.
Hey Elkian, welcome to the site. Great question!
There's two questions/answers here: protecting your ideas from other people online, and protecting your ideas from the site you upload them to. I think we've got good solutions to both problems, but feel free to chime in if you have any questions, comments, or concerns.
To protect your work/ideas from other people, every page you create on Notebook.ai is private by default. This includes notebook pages (everything in the "Worldbuilding" section of the sidebar), as well as documents, timelines, and collections. You can also turn off the social features of Notebook.ai (disabling your profile and removing the forums) if you want to treat the site like a private tool. You can choose to share any of your pages at any time, and you can also revert them back to private at any time, even for people you've already shared the link to. The site also keeps logs of which IP address you've signed into your account from, which account created each page, and when, so there are detailed records of who created what and when.
To protect your work/ideas from the site itself, it's always a good idea to read the privacy policy of whatever site or tool you choose to use (ours is here). There's a lot of sites out there that try to assert some kind of ownership claim over whatever you write, but our official stance is that anything you upload or write is completely owned by you and you alone; it's just our job to keep it safe, secure, private, and available to you.
Does that answer your question? The final caveat is that anything you write on the forums is public, so it falls under the same kind of safety precautions you'd get from making anything public anywhere else on the Internet. If someone tries to steal it, there's always a record of when you posted it (and the above information like what IP address you logged in to post it from).