Family films
Ten years of video, opened on a MacBook Air. The films stay in the cloud. The laptop only plays the one you asked for.
Family
Locations
Family
- Christmas 2016.mov
- School play
- Holiday
Same drive, different folders
A family album and a project can share the shape.
The drive on the Mac does not care what you call the folders. Photos, a campaign, or an agent’s notes. One click either way.
Family
Open a folder. The drive does not care what you call it.
Open a folder on each desk. 0 of 3 so far.
How it sits on a Mac
One click, then it is simply a drive.
Step 01. Give it a name, then a size.
Name your drive
A size you can grow2 TB
On the drive
The work, and the window it lives in.
A photograph of the desk, and the drive as the Mac actually shows it.
A spring campaign
The freelancer and the editor open the same drive. One place for the film, the stills, and the deck.
Spring campaign
Locations
Spring campaign
- hero.mov
- stills
- deck.key
The studio
Photographs, a session, a cut. The apps already on the Mac open the files. Nothing is copied onto the disk first.
Studio
Locations
Studio
- selects
- session.logicx
- grade
A repo, with an agent
The project lives on the drive. You and the agent read the same files. The MacBook does not have to hold the whole thing.
florist-shop
Locations
florist-shop
- page.tsx
- voice.md
- design
Four stages done. Private beta is this one.
- Done.
The brief
A full Mac, a drawer of little drives, and one kind of thing: your own cloud drive.
1 - Done.
File Provider
The macOS API that lets a cloud volume show up in Finder, Get Info, and the apps you already use.
2 - Done.
The cloud
The files live off the laptop. The Mac fetches a file when an app opens it, and writes changes back.
3 - Done.
One click
The Mac app for Air, Pro, Studio, and mini. One click, and the drive is in the sidebar.
4 - Now.
NowPrivate beta
Seats, not a public download. The drive is on other people’s Macs, and the list is how the next seat opens.
5 - Still to come.
Harden the volume
Large libraries, files held open by Photos, Premiere, and Logic, and an agent reading the same drive.
6 - Still to come.
Notarise and ship
A Developer ID signature, Apple notarisation, then a public Mac build. The list closes when that download is real.
7 - Still to come.
iPhone
The same drive from the pocket. It waits until the Mac build is public.
8
The private beta opens from the list.
Keep this page on your home screen
The Mac app is private for now. Add Cove to your home screen and the beta stays a tap away.