Merrimo User Guide › Collaboration and sharing

Collaborate with live presence and cursors on Mac

In Merrimo on your Mac, you can collaborate simultaneously on manuscripts and comic pages with live team cursors, soft selection locks, and conflict-free data sync.

View collaborator cursors and selections

Work alongside artists, writers, and letterers in real time:

1. Open any story shared with your team. When others are in it, their pictures (or initials) appear inside the Share button in the toolbar: up to three, then a count such as “+2”. Click it to see Here now: who is in the story and where (such as “Reading Chapter 2” or “On the Canvas · page 3”). Click a person to go where they are, or click Share… to invite someone. An AI agent you have connected shows up there too, with a sparkles badge and a name such as “Claude (for Ana)” (see Connect Claude and ChatGPT to Merrimo).
2. As teammates move their mice across the canvas, their colored cursors appear labeled with their names.
3. When a collaborator selects a panel, dialogue balloon, or manuscript paragraph, a tinted selection border displays their color.
4. Merrimo automatically places a 2-minute soft lock on items actively being edited to prevent conflicting overwrites.

Work offline with automatic reconnection

Keep writing and drawing even without an active internet connection:

1. If network connection is lost, a subtle status dot in the status bar indicates offline mode.
2. All your changes are recorded in local SQLite storage.
3. When your connection is restored, Merrimo syncs buffered edits automatically using deterministic conflict-free resolution.