Philoi

A real-time collaborative document editor.

A document you write alone is monochrome. Colour arrives with other people.

The Philoi editor showing a launch-decision document, with the outline rail on the left, a starred title, and the formatting toolbar.
Presence

Colour means a person.

Every collaborator gets one hue — in their cursor, their selection, their comments. A page with four people in it is never monochrome.

Presence

The band along the top edge is everyone in the document right now, each in their colour.

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Launch notes
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Before Friday

The editor ships first — the same node views, the same shortcuts, the same paper you’re reading this on.Mara

Then the sync server, then this page. Nothing here is networked yet, so the three of us are a script — but the editor underneath is the real one.Sol

  • Convergence rig green across ten clients
  • Keystroke to glyph under sixteen milliseconds
  • Comments survive a rewrite

Type in it — the collaborators are scripted, the editor isn’t.