The Room is a single-purpose editor. No social feed, no notifications, nothing pulling at your attention. Just a clean page, a chapter tree, and your characters in the margin.
Mute mode
The signature feature. Press ⌘. (Cmd + period) or click Mute in the top bar. The chapter tree, the character notes, the top bar, the bottom bar, gone. The browser also goes fullscreen, so the dock and tabs go too. Just the page and the cursor. Press Esc to come back.
Mute everything else and just write.
Local-first
Every keystroke saves to your browser’s local storage immediately. Your manuscript is on your machine, not on a server you don’t control. Mute mode, snapshots, focus modes, and exports all work offline.
One honest warning. Right now your manuscript lives in this browser only. Clearing browsing data, switching browsers, or using Private mode will lose anything you haven’t exported. Cloud sync (where signing in writes a backup copy to our server) ships with the backend. Until then, export weekly with the Download button. You’ll get a clean .docx, .md, or plain text file you fully own.
Export anywhere
One-click export to Markdown and plain text today. EPUB and DOCX are next on the list. We don’t hold your words hostage. If DraftFolk shuts down, you walk away with your manuscript as a clean text file you can open anywhere.
Chapters, scenes, and a tree you can hide
Drag-reorder. Two-digit padded chapter numbers (so 01 sorts before 10). Italic for outlines and drafts; upright for finished. Click a scene, you’re in it. Word counts per scene, per chapter, per manuscript, but they’re small, in the margin. Not the point.
Character notes that pin to the writing
A right-side panel for character cards (avatar, role, age, traits) and pinned snippets, that line of dialogue you keep wanting to reference, the saying her father gave her. Always visible while you write the scene.