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Work stays in the workspace
Use conversation to direct the agent, then work with the result in your documents, files, and projects instead of leaving it buried in a chat.
What changes
A workspace native to humans and agents.
Humans work with documents, files, and visible outcomes. Agents work through sessions, context, and tools. Duobox gives both a native way to work on the same project.02
Knowledge that stays useful
Your work accumulates as a local knowledge base. Notes, drafts, references, and decisions stay near the projects they belong to.
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Context-rich writing
Write with surrounding context, references, search, and structure already available. The page is no longer a blank surface.
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From thought to action
Agents can move beyond suggestion into useful action through local tools, skills, and workspace-aware workflows.
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Own the workspace
Local-first by default. Your files, working memory, and project context remain yours, portable and inspectable.
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Built for daily focus
A restrained interface for long sessions: less dashboard noise, fewer interruptions, more room for thinking.
Product philosophy
For humans. For agents.
Duobox lets humans and agents work on the same project in the way that suits each of them, with a native working surface for both.Read, organize, edit, and trace.
Humans work directly with documents, structure, and visible outcomes to understand, organize, and keep editing the same project.
Recognize, invoke, execute, and keep running.
Agents work directly with the project environment to recognize existing state, read context, invoke tools, and write results back.
Product comparison
The difference is not whether a product has AI, but who it is designed for.
Read down each column to see the working model a product supports natively. Plugins and external tools are not counted.| Native capability | ObsidianHuman-first | TyporaHuman-first | NotionHuman-first | CraftHuman-first | OpenAI CodexAgent-first | Claude CodeAgent-first | CursorAgent-first | WindsurfAgent-first | DuoboxFor both |
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| A workspace humans can use directly | |||||||||
| A native agent runtime | |||||||||
| Directly readable and editable outcomes | |||||||||
| Tool use and task execution | |||||||||
| Persistent project context | |||||||||
| A project shared by humans and agents | |||||||||
| Built for work beyond code |
Where it becomes useful
For the work that keeps turning into more work.
A workspace becomes more valuable than a one-off conversation when material, judgment, and execution need to keep moving through the same context.Research
Collect source material, keep notes close, ask the agent to compare, summarize, and turn scattered context into a clearer line of inquiry.
Reports
Move from raw findings to a structured argument. Draft outlines, refine sections, and keep supporting material within reach.
Learning
Build your own study trail from reading notes, questions, examples, and explanations that can be revisited later.
Knowledge base
Turn repeated thinking into durable context: decisions, references, playbooks, project memory, and reusable notes.
Blogs and newsletters
Develop ideas from fragments into essays, posts, newsletters, and public writing without losing the private context behind them.
Workspace structure
Knowledge, agents, and action stay close together.
They are not three separate tools, but one continuous way of working inside the same project.Knowledge
A local base of documents, notes, references, and project material that grows with your real work.
Agent
A context-aware collaborator that can work from the same material you are seeing, editing, and organizing.
Action
A path from intent to execution through tools, skills, shell, and workspace operations.
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Bring humans and agents into the same workspace.
Work with outcomes directly. Let agents use sessions and tools to move the same project forward.Download for macOS
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