A Zola post created in the Folio notetaking app

2 April, 2026 - Categories: Zola, notetaking apps, blogging - Tags: Folio

By Steven Rosenberg

Can the Folio notetaking app help me create blog posts for Zola?

So far the files look clean. They exist as Unix files, with the default location being ~.var/app/com.toolstack.Folio/data for the Folio Flatpak. And the working directory can be moved out of the Flatpak area and into other parts of the home directory, which is good because I don't always back up the Flatpak data under .var. So far, so good.

You can set a name for a note in Folio and when exporting to the file system. When exporting to your blog's /content directory, don't add the .md, or you'll get .md.md in the exported file's name.

Even though files seem to save themselves, there is a config setting to automatically save files every 30 seconds. I set that. One thing I don't want to do is have to remember to save a file.