window.showDirectoryPicker opens up a whole new world
Chrome introduced a new API, window.showDirectoryPicker() that allows the user to grant access to a directory on their computer and allow a website to read/write everything inside.
Chrome introduced a new API, window.showDirectoryPicker() that allows the user to grant access to a directory on their computer and allow a website to read/write everything inside. Examples that have been thrown around are a local-first notes app, where you can grant it access to a folder full of Markdown notes, and you own the data rather than it being squirrelled away in some cloud service. The other day I was getting nostalgic about Apple’s Aperture UI and wondered whether Claude could create a similarly-themed UI. I asked it to also use window.showDirectoryPicker. Here’s the result:…
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