How to make a page of links people can actually use

Before you pick a tool, answer who edits it

The resource page for the workshop goes up on a Monday. By Thursday two links have changed, someone has a sixth resource to add, and the person who built the page is on a plane. Whether that is a two-minute fix or a week of waiting is decided entirely by which tool you chose on Monday - not by how the page looks.

So start there. How often will the links change, who is allowed to change them, does the page need to look like your brand, and does it need to be private? Everything else follows from those four answers.

The five realistic options

Each of these is genuinely the right choice for somebody. None of them is the right choice for everybody.

• A shared doc. Up in five minutes, editable by anyone, and it looks like a shared doc. Fine for internal and temporary; nobody notices when a link dies.
• A Notion or wiki page. Better structure and easy edits, but it looks like every other wiki page, and readers outside the company may hit a login or an unfamiliar interface.
• A link-in-bio tool. Purpose-built for one skinny column of buttons on a phone. Great for a social profile, cramped the moment you need thirty links in six categories.
• A page on your website. Exactly your brand and exactly your domain - and every future edit goes through whoever owns the site. That queue is where link pages go to rot.
• A published board. Grouped links with descriptions, a real URL, and edits by the person who owns the content rather than the person who owns the codebase.

Publishing a board in Linksley

Be upfront about the plan: creating public boards is a Business-plan feature. What you get is a board you already use internally, published at a pretty URL, with five themes to choose from - Classic, Gallery, Launcher, Showcase, and Card Grid - plus a header image and a tagline. Categories carry over as sections. Each link can have its own description and image, which is the difference between a wall of blue text and a page someone can skim.

For private audiences, share the page behind a password, or require an account to view it. And because the page is a view of the board, editing is editing: add the link on the board, and the public page has it. The page you publish and the board you work in are the same object, which is why it stays current.

This is how a client resource page, a workshop handout, a nonprofit's referral list, or a company's public tool stack stays accurate past week one - the person who notices the broken link is the person who can fix it.

The honest limitation

If you want a designed marketing page - custom sections, a signup form, your own layout - build a real page on your own site. A published board is a good-looking list of links, not a page builder, and pretending otherwise wastes your time. Likewise, if all you need is five buttons under a social profile, a link-in-bio tool is simpler and cheaper than anything here.

The board wins when the links change, when there are enough of them to need categories, and when the person maintaining them should not have to file a ticket to fix a typo.