In this Dispatch, we’ll introduce you to two new projects at the lab: exploring writing environments for science papers and local-first access control. Cloud based services provide excellent access control features allowing users fine grained control over who has read and write access to a document, as well as features like user groups and folders which implicitly grant access to their members and contents respectively. You might enjoy this excellent study on file system design by Dominic Giampaolo, lead creator of Be File System who now works on file systems at Apple.