Fold, a creative reference library

It is 2026 and a new browser ships every quarter. Chrome, Arc, Dia, whatever comes next: each one arrives with its own bookmark silo, and nobody cares what happens to the saves left behind. Saving got easier every year. Finding never did.

So bookmarks became lost treasure. We hold hundreds of them, collected over years across Chrome, Arc, Firefox, and Safari, and we never find the one we need. The tools that tried to fix this are either web silos that hold your data hostage (Pocket’s shutdown proved the risk) or utilitarian list managers with no visual sense.

Fold is a full bookmark replacement: every browser imports read-only into a local SQLite library, presented as an image-first board, made findable with on-device intelligence. Bookmark a page in Chrome and it lands in Fold seconds later, keyed by the browser’s stable IDs so re-imports never duplicate.

And it is local-first on principle. The library lives on your Mac, intelligence runs on-device, and export is always free. Sharing is an explicit act: publish a collection as a board that anyone can open and comment on in the browser, without the app.

Fold is one person’s product. I designed the workflows, every screen, and every state, made the product calls, and built the app in Swift with AI-assisted development, pairing with Claude and Codex. The code is a collaboration; the product decisions, and the responsibility for what ships, are mine.

Validation is part of the build, not an afterthought: an automated suite of 1,300+ tests, a snapshot harness that renders every surface in light and dark before a change ships, and daily use against my own 600-bookmark library.