Public notes can be read by any hypertext user. By default, InfoExplorer notes are private, accessible only to the user who created them. These private notes are saved in the user's $HOME/info and $HOME/info/<library>/notes directories.
Users with write access to the /usr/lpp/info/data directory can create public notes, which are stored in this directory, by converting their private notes to public notes with the mergenote command.