Cloud Projects is the bridge between your desktop and your Rixcart account. The sidebar lists the documents, workbooks and decks you keep in Rixcart cloud projects, lets you search and sort them, and opens any of them in the right editor with one click. If you work across more than one machine — or want a safety net beyond your own disk — this is the feature that makes the desktop suite feel continuous rather than confined to one computer.
What Cloud Projects syncs
The sidebar covers the three core editing formats:
- Documents from RixDocs.
- Spreadsheets from RixSheets.
- Presentations from RixSlides.
PDFs and Markdown files remain local files in your own folders — which is by design, since the cloud layer exists for documents you want available across devices or shared with collaborators. If you need a PDF or Markdown file on another machine, it travels through your own sync service of choice just like any other local file.
The Cloud Projects sidebar
You will find Cloud Projects in the sidebar of the home screen. Once you are signed in it shows your Rixcart projects in a list with two tools on top:
- Search filters the list by project name as you type, so a hundred projects narrow to one in a few keystrokes.
- Sorting orders projects the way you prefer, so the ones you touch daily sit at the top.
Clicking a project downloads it if needed and opens it in the matching editor — a document lands in RixDocs, a workbook in RixSheets, a deck in RixSlides. From there it behaves exactly like any other file: tabs, autosave, AI, all of it. The distinction between local and cloud ends at the sidebar; inside an editor there is no difference in how you work.
Because sync is scoped per project rather than blanket per account, you stay in control of what leaves your disk. A draft you are not ready to share simply lives locally; a document your team needs lives in a cloud project. Nothing migrates on its own, and nothing is uploaded as a side effect of editing.
Opening a project in the browser
Every synced project is also available on the Rixcart website. Use the open in browser option in the sidebar to jump to the same project at rixoffice.rixcart.com. This is handy when:
- You are on a machine without Rixoffice installed.
- A colleague needs to view or comment on the document quickly.
- You want to continue reading a long report on a tablet during a commute.
Browser access is intentionally read-and-light-edit oriented. Real writing, complex spreadsheets and deck building belong in the desktop app, where the full editor, AI and offline-first behavior live.
How sync behaves offline
Rixoffice is offline-first, and cloud projects respect that. You can open and edit a synced project with no connection; the app works on your local copy and syncs your changes when the network returns. Nothing is locked behind being online, and you are never locked out of your own work because a server is unreachable. The details are in offline mode.
A travel day, end to end
- Morning, at the office: open the Q3 report from Cloud Projects and make your edits.
- On the train, offline: reopen it from recents and keep writing — sync is simply paused.
- At the hotel: connect, and your train edits reach the cloud.
- In the meeting room: a colleague opens the same project in the browser to follow along.
At no point did anyone export, email an attachment or wonder which copy was current.
Keeping projects organized
A few habits make the sidebar a pleasure to use:
| Habit | Why it helps |
|---|---|
| Name projects by their outcome | Q3 board deck beats final_v2 in a search list |
| One project per deliverable | Its source workbook sits alongside the document it feeds |
| Sort by last edited | Pick up exactly where the previous session ended |
| Browser for reviews, desktop for work | Each environment does what it is best at |
Names are the search index you build for your future self. The sidebar search is only as good as the names you type today.
Where your data lives
Synced projects are stored in your Rixcart account, which comes with device session management and GDPR data controls — you can review signed-in devices and access or delete your account data. Files you never sync stay in your own folders and never leave your machine. The full picture is covered in AI privacy.
Sync is opt-in per file, not a blanket upload: the cloud holds what you put in it, and the desktop keeps everything else exactly where it was. That split is what lets Rixoffice be both connected and local-first at the same time.
For teams, the account layer also carries the practical guarantees: sessions can be revoked per device when hardware changes hands, and data controls mean a departing colleague's account can be audited and cleared without touching anyone else's local files.
What to explore next
- Tabs and recent files — how open files and recents work alongside the sidebar.
- Offline mode — editing synced projects without a connection.
- Plans and pricing explained — what each plan includes for cloud features.