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Coming from Folk?

Folk is a workspace a team shares. Kola is the memory one person keeps.

Download See them side by side

Choose Folk if

  • Your team works the same contacts
  • You need a shared board
  • You want pipelines and views for a group

Choose Kola if

  • The memory is yours, not the team's
  • You want it on your own machine
  • You want it to follow you between jobs
What Folk is for

One person, not a team.

Folk is a shared relationship workspace. A small team works the same contacts together.

Kola is for one person, and it keeps its data on that person's Mac. That is a real difference, not a missing feature.

What Folk Kola
Made for A team working the same contacts One person's own memory
Reads The accounts the team connects, and what they add The accounts you connect
You end up with A shared workspace A file on your own Mac
Who it suits Small teams One person

One person, one Mac

There is no shared workspace and no seat to buy for a colleague. The index is yours and it is on your machine.

Nothing to keep updated

People and their details arrive from the accounts you connect, so there is no record to maintain by hand.

It follows you, not the seat

The file is on your own machine, so what you know is not tied to a team account.

A person record in Kola: contact fields, relationship strength, and tabs for emails, meetings, notes and circle

One page per relationship, on one Mac.

Switching

There is nothing to migrate.

Kola does not import from another tool, and it does not need to. It reads the same accounts you already connected elsewhere and builds its own picture from them.

  1. 1

    Install Kola.

    One download, signed and notarized by Apple. Nothing to export from Folk first.

  2. 2

    Connect an account.

    Start with the mailbox and calendar you live in. Kola reads them in the background and fills itself in.

  3. 3

    Keep both for a while.

    Nothing forces a decision. Run them side by side and keep whichever earns its place.

Questions

Before you switch.

Can my team share a Kola?

No. Kola is for one person and keeps its data on that person's Mac. If your team needs a shared board, Kola is not it.

Can I use both?

Yes. Plenty of people keep a shared workspace for the team and Kola for the network they carry themselves.

Do I have to import anything to get started?

No. Connect the same accounts you already use and Kola builds itself from them. There is nothing to export from anywhere else first.

Which accounts can it read?

Gmail, Outlook and Apple Mail, Google and Outlook calendars, Google and Apple Contacts, Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack, LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook. Connect only the ones you use.

What does it need to run?

An Apple Silicon Mac. Kola is signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens with a normal double-click.

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Never forget who you know.

Install Kola and connect an account. Kola builds your contacts from there.

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