Word processors gained ribbons, menus and panels; writing itself did not change. And when AI arrived, it moved into the middle of the page: you hand it your text, it hands back another, and you are no longer sure which part is still yours. Folio starts from the opposite idea.
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- Letter to the teams
- Launch notes
- Draft — keynote
Letter to the teams
Since September we have changed the way we work with AI agents. Every project now starts with a short spec, read by two people.
What really changed is that we stopped judging tools on a demo and started judging them on what still runs on Monday morning, once everyone is back from their meetings.
What comes next fits in three workstreams, detailed below.
- Improve
- Rephrase
- Shorten
- Check logic
- Make a table
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We no longer judge a tool on its demo, but on what still runs on Monday morning.
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nothing changes without you.
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The page first
A next-generation editor starts by getting out of the way. A page, a title, text, and almost nothing around it: formatting appears when you select, files tuck into the side, search fits in one shortcut. On a phone the file list folds away and all that is left is the page.
AI in the margin, not in the text
The AI does not rewrite in silence. You highlight a sentence, pick what you want — improve, rephrase, shorten, check the logic, turn a list into a table or a diagram — and the suggestion appears beside it, like a reviewer's note. You read it, replace or dismiss. Nothing changes without you, and the text stays yours.
Your text is yours
No account to start, no proprietary format: the text is saved as you go on the device, in Markdown, and exports as is. A file you can still open in ten years with any tool is the only promise of durability that holds.
A demo to try it
Folio exists as a demo in the browser: a Markdown writing space, automatic saving on the device and AI-assisted editing, simulated for now. It is a concept — enough to judge the idea on the real thing, not a finished product.