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Original position
Sync the complete archive to every device before the workspace opens.
2 sources
Product
Everything that keeps the archive useful.
Commonfold follows one source record from capture through retrieval, interpretation, memory, collaboration, and export. This is the complete product surface, organized by the work it helps you do.
01Capture
02Retrieve
03Interpret
04Continue
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Capture
Start with the thought, not the filing system.
Commonfold's unified input understands questions, notes, reminders, and longer drafts. When a thought should become durable, it proposes the title, type, folder, tags, and connections for you to review.
- AI-assisted filing with explicit approval
- Voice transcription for thoughts in motion
- Natural-language reminders and a daily view
- Markdown, tables, code, mathematics, templates, and private file attachments
I keep returning to the idea that a product should preserve the reasoning behind a decision, not only the outcome.
CapturingShift ↵
Review before filing
Preserve decision context
Type · principleFolder · ProductLinks · [[Decision journal]] · [[Product craft]]
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Understand
Search for the words. Ask for the meaning.
Keyword and semantic retrieval work together across notes, conversations, and document discussions. Ask Commonfold to synthesize what it finds and the answer stays attached to the evidence.
- Fast full-text and semantic search
- Wikilinks, backlinks, and graph-aware context
- Source-cited answers that admit uncertainty
- Ask from anywhere or from an exact passage
Personal space
Linked archiveResearch notes
Research
People to follow
Reference
Reading list
Reading
Launch plan
9 links
Current
Quarterly direction
Decisions, open questions, and the thinking behind them.
What did I decide about the autumn launch?
You moved the public launch to October so the research archive and sharing workflow could ship together.
Launch planAugust review
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Interpret
Turn evidence into a view you can inspect.
When prose is not the clearest answer, Commonfold can compose a timeline, comparison, note collection, graph, or working canvas from validated sources. The result keeps its evidence instead of becoming a detached AI artifact.
- Timelines, comparisons, note lists, graphs, and canvases
- Every block resolves against allowed source versions
- Live saved views report what changed between runs
- Captured synthesis stays frozen when that is the honest model
Decision comparison
Grounded view · 5 sources02
Current position
Open with durable local capture, then reconcile search, links, and presence in the background.
3 sources
Saved views keep their validated source versions and can be rerun when the archive changes.
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Remember
Context that remains visible to you.
Commonfold can carry relevant facts, preferences, activities, and intentions between conversations. It never needs to become a black box: every item has provenance, state, and controls.
- A dated event history for every change
- Undo, merge, pin, unpin, and safe removal
- Real-time updates without assistant guesswork
- Strict separation between personal and work spaces
What Commonfold remembers
AuditableWorking preference
Show the reasoning, then the recommendation.
Active intention
Prepare the research archive for October.
Current activity
Reading about tools for thought.
Editable · Pinned · Reversible
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Collaborate
Work together without flattening authorship.
Commonfold brings realtime editing, presence, anchored discussions, and version recovery into the same note. Share a controlled view externally, or keep work inside an authenticated space.
- Realtime editing plus expiring Viewer and Editor invitations
- Discussions anchored to exact passages
- Revocable View or Comment links with frozen scope
- Human, AI, and system revisions stay distinct
Research synthesis
The archive as a thinking partner
A useful archive keeps the trail from observation to decision. It should make disagreement visible and preserve the source behind every conclusion.
Shared context becomes more valuable when each change remains attributable.
Discussion
Mira
Can we link this to the launch decision?
You
Done, and added the August source.
Saved · Version 24
From knowledge to action
Continue the work without losing the source.
Tasks and notifications
Turn an approved decision into assigned work with projects, priorities, dependencies, reminders, and a cross-space inbox.
API and webhooks
Connect external tools through scoped, expiring API credentials and signed webhooks. Membership and role checks still apply.
Consequential AI changes and knowledge-to-task proposals remain subject to explicit human approval.
Portability
Bring the archive you have. Keep the archive you build.
Obsidian import
Analyze a vault locally, review the proposed organization, then import its Markdown, folders, frontmatter, tags, and wikilinks.
Round-trip export
Download the complete space as a structured Markdown vault. Notes, conversations, daily entries, memory, metadata, and links travel with it.
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