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Introducing Poly Office

A local-first document platform with 8 formats in one app — notes, documents, presentations, whiteboards, spreadsheets, kanban, charts, and forms — plus a professional canvas for AI-powered template workflows

Eight Document Types, One App

Poly Office ships with eight integrated document formats, all built on the same block-based data model. Every document can be linear or spatial. Everything works offline. No server required.


Notes

Markdown-first with CodeMirror. Wiki-links with backlinks, tags, folders, favorites, and version history with diff view.

Documents

Rich text editing with TipTap and 48 extensions. Callouts, toggles, footnotes, KaTeX math, columns, suggestions mode (track changes), headers and footers, and 34 slash commands. Page layout control with margins, orientation, and page breaks.

Presentations

Slide editor with 13 transition effects (fade, dissolve, cube, morph, and more), block-level animations, presenter mode, slide sorter, and master templates. Export to PDF, PPTX, PNG, or SVG.

Whiteboards

Infinite canvas with 22 block types and 12 shape types. Connectors (straight, curved, stepped), smart guides, layers panel, gradient fills, and 13 wireframe shapes for UI mockups. AI-powered shape recognition converts freehand drawings into clean geometry. Import PDFs and SVGs directly onto the canvas. 34 templates included.

Spreadsheets

HyperFormula engine with 400+ functions, canvas-based rendering, conditional formatting, data validation, merge and freeze, sort and filter, 8 chart types as floating overlays, sparklines, pivot tables with slicer filtering, formula debugger, goal seek, and sheet protection with SHA-256 hashing.

Kanban Boards

Five views — board, table, calendar, analytics (burndown, cumulative flow, throughput), and Gantt with dependency arrows. Cards support labels, priority, dates, story points, time tracking, checklists, dependencies, custom fields, and threaded comments. Automation rules, sprint planning, WIP limits, and bulk operations.

Charts

14 SVG chart types (bar, line, pie, donut, scatter, bubble, radar, combo, area, heatmap, treemap, waterfall, funnel, gauge) with a 3-tab editor for data, design, and style. Live-link to spreadsheet documents. Dashboard builder with grid and freeform layout.

Forms

11+ question types including ranking, NPS, and image choice. Quiz mode with scoring and feedback. Section branching and skip logic. Response analytics with completion funnels, drop-off rates, and per-question charts. Share via URL, QR code, or embed. Export responses to CSV, XLSX, or convert directly to a spreadsheet.


Professional Canvas

The template workflow editor. Drop generator nodes onto an infinite canvas, wire them together, and execute.

  • 83 generators across 11 studios — Marketing, Legal, Finance, Sales, HR, Product, Engineering, Operations, Creative, Education, General
  • 5 materializers — outputs become real documents, spreadsheets, kanban boards, charts, or forms
  • AI-powered — classify tasks, analyze context, generate structured content, and interview users through conversational data collection
  • Cascade execution with topological sorting

21 AI Routes

AI is integrated throughout — not bolted on. Chat with document context, generate and expand text, enhance grammar and tone, autocomplete while typing, auto-categorize documents, generate Mermaid diagrams from natural language, create slide decks, build templates, embed text for semantic search, and transcribe voice to text.


Import & Export

Import: Markdown, DOCX, Plain Text, HTML, CSV, RTF, LaTeX, SVG, XLSX, OCR, and PDF-to-canvas.

Export: PDF, Markdown, HTML, DOCX, LaTeX, RTF, Plain Text, JSON Canvas, Blog HTML (3 themes), PPTX, PNG, SVG, XLSX, CSV, and more — 26 formats total.


Built Local-First

Everything runs client-side. Dexie (IndexedDB) with 31 tables, Jotai state management with 25 stores, and a PWA service worker for offline access. No account required to start working.

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