Frequently Asked Questions

Your on-device file vault that finds any file the way your brain remembers it. Drop files in — local AI extracts cognitive anchors (WHO · WHAT · WHERE · WHEN) and makes everything searchable. No cloud uploads. No hallucinations. Nothing trained on your data. Runs on YOUR device. (More on the paradigm: Think Outside the Folder.)

Drop files into Folderless. A local AI model reads each one, extracts who it's about, what type it is, when it was issued — searchable in seconds. No manual tagging. No folders. Find by meaning, not by filename.

Click “Get started” on the homepage. Enter your access code — from a Folderless link, or complete the quick anonymous survey to get one — then download, install, and sign in with Google. You’re in.

Sensitive files — tax returns, passports, medical records — should live where YOU control them. Not on someone else's server. Not training someone else's AI. Not feeding the attention economy. Folderless keeps everything on your machine. Privacy by physics — not by policy. That's the whole promise.

Your files stay where you keep them — local drives or cloud storages of your choice. Folderless runs on your device and processes everything locally with on-device AI: no cloud LLMs, no server-side index of your files, no telemetry on file contents. macOS for now (Apple Silicon M1/M2/M3 recommended, but not required — Intel Mac users are welcome to try). AI features are optional — enable them whenever you like; any consumer Mac is enough to get started.

Two FREE Tiers — No commitment. No credit card required. Full Pro trial during launch. Early adopters lock in Founding Member pricing when Pro launches (a generous discount + priority feedback line to the founder). Public pricing details will follow the launch cycle.

Modes: Act (workflow assist). Content types: Media (images · videos). Platforms: Intel Mac, Windows, Linux, Mobile (iOS + Android companion). Folderless ships macOS (Apple Silicon) first — the rest arrives on the roadmap in that order.

"Document management" sounds enterprise-y — SharePoint, cabinets, IT policies. "File vault" says what Folderless actually is: a private, on-device space where every file across your storages is organized, findable, and duplicate-free. It's yours. On YOUR device. Not another cloud silo.

Folderless uses a patent-pending Cognitive Anchors framework that extracts human-friendly memory anchors from every file — so you can find things the way your brain actually remembers them. Everything runs on YOUR device. No cloud AI. No hallucinations. No tokens.

Privacy-conscious individuals, professionals, and families who keep sensitive files — tax returns, passports, medical records, legal contracts, family photos — and want them organized intelligently without feeding the attention-seeking freemium economy. Your files. Your device. Your rules.

Folderless is your on-device file vault. Local AI organizes every file by cognitive anchors (WHO · WHAT · WHERE · WHEN) so you can find any file by meaning — not by folder path. No cloud uploads. No surveillance. Just privacy by physics, not by policy. Save mode declutters and de-duplicates; Act mode (workflow assist) and Media (images and videos) are coming soon. (Full story: /about.)

Visa renewal time. Dozens of documents — every family member, every year — and I lost hours hunting through drives, clouds, folders, subfolders. Like finding a needle in a haystack, except the haystack was a cluster of folders piled over decades. That's when it landed: the folder maze is a decades-old design built for machines, not for how a human brain recollects. So I started building one that works the way you actually remember things — by who, what, where, when.