The last decade belonged to the cloud
Notion, Roam, Coda, Airtable nailed "easy + collaborative." The price: your data locked in proprietary shapes.
AI changes the calculus
An agent only reaches its potential when it can use the right project context. A workspace folder gives documents, data, and tools a shared boundary without repeated uploads.
Privacy and the AI era are the same problem
The more context you give AI, the more carefully you need to control provider access, tool permissions, credentials, and the files each task can reach.