Folio blog: How-to
Step-by-step posts with the commands, screens and limits stated.
Posts tagged How-to
Publish a Cursor canvas to your team wiki: dashboards that outlive the chat
A canvas Cursor builds sits in your editor and on your disk. In Folio it becomes a page in the tree, with search, Git history and access rights, and its filters still work. We ran it for real with Cursor's agent and wrote down what worked, what changed and what does not carry over.
- AI & MCP
- Publishing
- How-to
Publish a Claude artifact to your team wiki: interactive pages that live in Git
A dashboard or calculator an AI agent builds usually stays in the chat. In Folio it becomes a page in the tree, with search, Git history and access rights, and its filters still work. Publish it over MCP with one sentence, or import it by hand. How it works and where it stops.
- AI & MCP
- Publishing
- How-to
Make any page a template: custom templates for your Folio space
Right-click any page and make it a template: a document, a board, a table, a form or a whole tree. Pick it from the + menu, and the date, author and title are filled in. Templates are files in Git, and a new space starts with three. How it works and where it stops.
- How-to
- Collaboration
Export Confluence to Markdown and keep it in Git
Confluence exports Word, PDF, HTML, XML and CSV, not Markdown. Five ways to get Markdown files in Git, how to keep the page tree, what each loses on the way, and a checklist for a trial run.
- Confluence
- Docs as code
- How-to
Mermaid diagrams in a team wiki: keep them as code
A diagram stored as Mermaid code changes in the same edit as the page, shows in the diff and renders on GitHub. Three examples with real code (flowchart, sequence, ER), how Folio draws and edits them, and what the free live editor does.
- Docs as code
- How-to
Docs-as-code without the IDE: edit your repository's docs in a browser
The docs stay Markdown in your product's Git repository and a technical writer edits them in a browser, by hand, with Folio AI or through an agent over MCP. How the Git sync works, and where it stops.
- Docs as code
- How-to