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A folder on this computer

Keep drafts right beside the checkout they are about. No account, no bucket, no server in between - just a folder, read and written directly.

What it needs

Nothing to configure. There is no form for this one - you click Choose folder and pick it, the same picker your operating system already gives you.

Where it works

ContextHow it reads the folder
Chromium browsers The File System Access API. Chrome, Edge and Arc have it on by default; Brave ships it off, switched on at brave://flags/#file-system-access-api.
The desktop app Its own picker, driven by the operating system rather than the browser engine underneath it - so this one works inside the desktop app even though the app's web view is Safari's engine, which has no File System Access API of its own.
Every other browser Not available. Safari and Firefox have no File System Access API and no substitute - use the desktop app, or one of the other four backends.
A browser remembers which folder you chose. It does not remember that it is allowed to read it once the tab closes - reopening asks you to confirm the grant again, a click rather than a repick.

Why it exists

This is the backend for someone who keeps drafts beside the checkout they came from - no server, not even a bucket, sits between the agent writing and you reading. It is also the fastest of the five to set up: there is no token to scope, no CORS to configure, no region to pick.

The trade is reach. A folder on disk is a folder on this disk - reading the same review from a second machine means syncing that folder yourself, with iCloud Drive, Dropbox, or whatever you already use. If reviews need to reach more than one machine on their own, a bucket or a repository is the better fit.

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