About Foldocs
Why Foldocs exists, what you get, and who makes it.
Most people who want a website already have a place where they write: shared documents, with comments, suggestions and version history. A website builder asks them to move their writing, learn another editor and keep it up to date. Foldocs leaves the writing where it is and makes the website from it.
How it works
Share a folder with a link, from Google Drive or Nextcloud; OneDrive and Dropbox are coming. Every document in it becomes a page, every folder a section. Change a document, and a few minutes later the page follows. Start here shows every step.
What you get
- Write together: whoever can edit the folder can edit the site
- Quick on any phone: pages are light, pictures sized for the screen
- Easy to find and to share: search engines and link previews are taken care of
- Readable by everyone: in light and in dark, and with a screen reader
- Your look: colours and fonts from a table in a document
- Always yours: your writing never leaves your folder
This site is a folder
Every page on foldocs.com is a document in one public Google Drive folder. Each page links to its document, and the folder behind this site shows the two side by side. Visits are counted with Umami, without cookies and without following you across sites. The photos are NASA's, in the public domain: images.nasa.gov.
The name
Foldocs is a folder of documents, and that is all a Foldocs site is: a folder you share, with an intro to open each page, documents for its pages and folders for its sections.
Open source, in beta
Foldocs is free software under the GNU Affero General Public License 3.0; its themes are MIT-licensed. It is new: expect rough edges, and tell us when you find one. The code is on GitHub. Made by David Graus in Amsterdam.
Ready? Start with Your first site.