Folio Writer

Community templates:
share a project, start from one

A good project is a good starting point. Folio Writer Cloud has a browsable gallery of shared projects — thesis skeletons, journal article layouts, grant-proposal structures, lab notebooks — that anyone can open, download, or clone into their own account and start writing in. Contributors submit their own; nothing goes public without review.

Browse and search

The gallery lives on the Cloud welcome page as Community templates. Filter by category — Thesis / Dissertation, Journal article, Grant proposal, Lab notebook / Protocol, Book / Monograph, Course / Teaching, Report / Whitepaper, or Notes — or search across titles, tags, and descriptions. Each card shows what the template is for and what you can do with it.

Three ways to use one

Every template offers up to three actions, and a contributor chooses which to allow when they submit:

  1. Open — read it in the browser, at the template's chosen tier (view-only, or a live editable sandbox).
  2. Download — pull the whole thing down as a .folio package to open in the Mac or iOS app.
  3. Clone as template — copy it into your own account as a new, private project and start writing. Your copy is yours; changes never touch the original.

A public project opens at its plain address — no link with a secret key, because there's nothing private to protect. Cloning needs a free account (so the copy has somewhere to live) and counts against your project quota like any other project.

Submit your own

Turned a project into something others could start from? In the Share dialog, choose Submit to community gallery… Pick a category, add tags and a short description, and set what visitors may do — view online, download, clone, and whether the shared copy is editable. Then submit for review.

Your project stays yours. Submitting doesn't move or expose your working project. When an admin approves it, Folio publishes a frozen copy — a snapshot at approval time — into the gallery. You keep writing in your own project; the template is a fixed starting point, not a live mirror.

Review and curation

Submissions land in a moderation queue. An administrator reviews each one — adjusting the category or tags if needed — then approves or declines it. Approved templates are permanent (they don't expire like an ad-hoc public share), and an admin can unpublish one at any time, which removes the public copy without touching the contributor's own project. End-to-end encrypted projects can't become templates: the published copy would be unreadable, so publish an unencrypted copy instead.

Tiers

Browsing, downloading, and cloning community templates is open to everyone with a free Folio Writer Cloud account. Submitting a project for the gallery follows the same account rules as sharing a project on the web.

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