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title: "Find documents other people shared with you"
description: "Documents someone shared with your email address for editing appear in Shared with me. Why one might be missing, and how editing a shared document works."
url: https://help.pdfbetter.com/sharing/documents-shared-with-me/
collection: "Sharing & delivery"
section: "Activity & access"
updated: 2026-10-18
publisher: "PDFBetter (AI Generated Inc.)"
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# Find documents other people shared with you

> Open **Shared with me** in the sidebar. It lists documents someone invited your email address to edit, with who shared each one and when your access ends. Click one to open it in the editor.

Do it in PDFBetter: https://pdfbetter.com/app/shared/

1. **Sign in with the invited email**: Use the account whose email the owner entered when creating the **Can edit** link.
2. **Confirm your email**: Shared documents are matched to your email address, so they appear only after you've confirmed it. Use the link in your welcome email.
3. **Open Shared with me**: In the sidebar, click **Shared with me**. Each row shows **Shared by** and, if set, when **access ends**.
4. **Edit**: Click the document. It opens in the editor and you work on the same document as the owner.

## What appears here

Only edit links limited to your email address. View, comment and fill links aren't listed: open those from the link you were sent. A document disappears from the list when the owner turns the link off, the link expires, or the owner deletes the document.

## Working on a shared document

- Your changes are saved into the owner's document; there's no separate copy.
- Downloads you make count against your own plan, not the owner's.
- You can't create share links for someone else's document. Only the owner can.

> **Tip:** Working with the same people on many documents? On Business, owners can [share documents with their team](https://help.pdfbetter.com/teams/share-documents-with-team/) from a document's menu instead of one edit link per file.

### Someone shared a document but it's not here.

Check that you're signed in with the exact email they invited and that it's confirmed. Also ask whether the link was **Can edit**: other permissions aren't listed here.

### Where are documents sent to me for signature?

Under **Received** in the sidebar, not here. See [What signers see](https://help.pdfbetter.com/signing/what-signers-see/).

## Related articles

- [Share a PDF with a link](https://help.pdfbetter.com/sharing/create-share-link.md): In the editor, click Done → Share, pick what people can do (Can view, Can comment, Can fill or Can edit), set expiry, password and download options, then click Create link and Copy link.
- [What people see when they open your link](https://help.pdfbetter.com/sharing/shared-link-recipient-view.md): The link opens the document in the browser with "Shared by" your name. Depending on the permission, people can comment, fill fields and click Send to …, open it in the editor, or Download it. Passwords and named-people limits are checked first.
- [See who opened, downloaded or filled your shared links](https://help.pdfbetter.com/sharing/share-link-activity.md): Open Link activity in the sidebar. You'll see activity per day, Links by recent activity, form responses and Recent events (viewed, downloaded, commented, filled in, wrong password, opened after expiry). Your plan keeps activity for 14 days on Free.
- [Share documents and templates with your team](https://help.pdfbetter.com/teams/share-documents-with-team.md): Open a document's row menu and choose Share with team. Teammates find it under the sidebar's Team → Documents (or Templates). Choose Stop sharing with team to make it personal again.
- [What signers see, and how to sign or decline](https://help.pdfbetter.com/signing/what-signers-see.md): Signers open Review and sign in the email, agree to use electronic records, fill the fields in their color and select Finish (approvers select Approve). No account or app is needed. They can also choose Decline or I'd rather use paper, which closes the request.

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Source: https://help.pdfbetter.com/sharing/documents-shared-with-me/ · PDFBetter Help Center · Last checked against the product 2026-10-18. Questions: support@pdfbetter.com