About Foldocs
Why it exists, what it does, and who makes it.
Many people who want a website already write in shared documents, with comments, suggestions and version history. A website builder asks them to move that writing into another editor and keep two places up to date. Foldocs leaves the writing where it is and builds the website from it.
How it works
You share a folder with a link, from Google Drive or Nextcloud. Each document in it becomes a page and each folder a section. When you change a document, the page changes a few minutes later. Start here explains it in more detail.
What it does
- Whoever can edit the folder can edit the site.
- Pages are small, and images are resized for each screen.
- Each page has the title, description and image that search engines and link previews use.
- Pages work in light and dark mode, and with a screen reader.
- Colors and fonts can be set in a table in a document.
- Your documents stay in your folder; the site is a copy.
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 can be seen beside the site. Visits are counted with Umami, which sets no cookies and doesn't follow visitors to other sites. The photos are NASA's, in the public domain: images.nasa.gov.
The name
Foldocs is short for folder of documents, which is what a Foldocs site is made of.
License and status
Foldocs is free software under the GNU Affero General Public License 3.0; its themes are under the MIT license. The code is on GitHub. It is in beta, so there will be rough edges: issues on GitHub are the place to report them. Made by David Graus in Amsterdam.
To make a site, start with Your first site. To have one set up for you, see Try Foldocs.