Research is hard enough.
Your tools shouldn't be.
Folio unifies your sources, citations, and AI writing assistant in one focused workspace — so you spend your time thinking, not formatting.
Be among the first researchers on the waitlist — first month free at launch.
Everything in one place
Built around how researchers actually work.
Smart Source Library
Add any source — URL, DOI, ISBN, or PDF. Folio extracts metadata, formats the citation, and keeps everything searchable.
AI That Knows Your Sources
Ask Scholar AI questions about your own library. Get answers grounded in the papers you actually read, not the open web.
Write With Full Context
Your AI writing assistant lives inside the editor. Cold Start builds your research brief. The outline, argument, and first draft — all in one place.
Citations That Just Work
APA, MLA, Chicago, IEEE, Harvard. Insert citations as you write. Export your bibliography when you're done. No formatting anxiety.
How it works
Citation insertion in one keystroke.
As you write, Folio surfaces the right source inline.
Press Tab — done.
The problem
You wrote the sentence. You know the source. You just can't face the citation right now.
Folio surfaces it inline. One keystroke and it's done.
Join early. Write better from day one.
First 300 waitlist signups
First month free
Your first month on Fellow is on us. No card required to join the waitlist.
First 50 signups
30% off Fellow — forever
The first 50 people on this waitlist get a permanent founding member discount.
Offer applied automatically at launch. No code needed.
Built for researchers, by someone who's been there.
“I built Folio because I kept losing hours to citation formatting and scattered PDFs. Every semester it was the same: twelve browser tabs, three citation managers, a bibliography I'd reformat twice before submission, and a draft that was late because I spent the morning tracking down page numbers.
I wanted a tool that worked the way I actually wrote — source library next to the editor, citations inserted in one keystroke, AI that knew what I was reading and could help me find what I was missing. It started as a tool for myself. I want to give every student and researcher the workspace they deserve.”
The academic writing workspace scholars deserve.
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