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There are no folders, and there never will be

Nested folders are how an agreement becomes unfindable three years later, usually at exactly the moment a funder asks for it. A fast query over the title, the tags and the text inside the document is how it stays findable forever.

Hands leafing through a thick ring binder, holding a tab divider open.

What this looks like today

Nobody agrees where things go

Grants/2024/Signed, or Signed/Grants/2024, or the one on the shared drive called FINAL_v3.

You remember a phrase, not a filename

You know the agreement mentioned a reporting deadline in March. You do not know what it was called.

Filters exist but nothing can set them

A search that only works if you already know the exact answer is a lookup, not a search.

What Baton does about it

1
Type roughly what you remember
Titles, tags and the extracted text of every document are searched together, and it is typo-tolerant, so close is usually good enough.
2
Narrow with filters that are actually in reach
Status, sender, team, date range, sent-by-me, overdue. Every one of them is a control on the page, and every one of them lives in the URL.
3
Save the search you keep repeating
A saved view is just that URL with a name on it, which is why it survives being shared, bookmarked and sent to a colleague.

What is true right now

Every line below describes something the product does today. Nothing on this page is a roadmap item wearing a feature’s clothes.

Full-text search across document contents, weighted so a title match beats a body match.
Every filter is in the address bar, so a search is a link you can send to somebody.
Results paginate at 10, 20, 50 or 100 a page, your choice.
Benchmarked against a million documents, not a demo dataset.

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