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It opens each page straight from your folder. There is nothing to start, and the page is still there after your AI session ends.
Ask an AI for a chart, a report or a deck, and the page often ends up as a preview inside the chat, a link on the AI company's servers, a file on your Mac, or a page served by a local web server your AI started. The trouble tends to show up later, when you want that page back.
Lost somewhere in an old chat. A preview lives inside the conversation that made it, so seeing it again means finding that chat. In lite.computer, the page is a file in your Showspace, saved where you can find it and open it easily.
Locked inside the AI that made it. A preview in a chat, or a page published to an AI company's link, stays with that company's app. In lite.computer your pages are portable: they are ordinary HTML files in your own folder, so any AI that can read and save files can open them, change them and add to them. Switch tools, or use several at once, and the folder stays exactly as it is.
Scattered across folders and AI apps. A page ends up wherever the tool that made it put it. When every AI you use saves into your Showspace, it all sits in one filing system, your own folder tree in the sidebar, and the app reopens it the next time it launches.
The link stopped working. A localhost link usually stops loading when the AI session that started it ends. In lite.computer no web server is started for your pages, so a page does not depend on your AI session to open.
One page at a time. A hosted link holds one page, and its links to your other files do not open. In lite.computer, a relative link from one page opens the other page, so a set of pages works as a set.
Go and find each new file. Opened from a chat, a link or a folder, a new page is one more thing you open yourself. In lite.computer, new pages appear as your AI saves them, with no refresh and no import.
Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini can show a page inside the conversation that made it, and the preview stays in that chat.
Some AI companies publish a page to a link on their own servers, ready to send to someone else. Each link holds one page, and links from it to your other files do not open.
Double-click an HTML file and it opens in your browser, with no other software involved. Some browsers block a page opened this way from loading files that sit beside it, and a folder of pages is only a list of filenames, with nothing to show how they connect.
Your AI starts a small program that hands pages to your browser at an address beginning http://localhost (see Localhost). A server started by an AI session usually stops when that session ends. Until something starts it again, the link shows an error, even though the files are still in the folder.
Tools such as v0, Lovable, Bolt and Replit show a live preview while they build, then publish the result to their own web address. The project lives in that builder's account.
Claude's desktop app, the Codex app, Cursor and VS Code can show a page next to the code. Most of these panes point at a local web server, so they go blank when it stops.
The app reads each page straight from your Showspace folder and shows it in its own window. No web server is started for your pages. The app watches the folder, so a page your AI adds or changes shows up without you doing anything.
Fonts and scripts from the web still load. Pages in iCloud or Google Drive that are not on your Mac yet open as they download; see iCloud and Google Drive: files still in the cloud.
The pages stay ordinary HTML files. Double-click any of them and it opens in your browser, with no app in between. That is also what makes them portable: any AI that can read and save files can pick up where another left off.
The page is still in the folder your AI saved it to. If it is a self-contained HTML page, drag that folder onto the lite.computer window and it opens as your Showspace, page included. A project that needs its own server code, logins or database still needs that server. ⌘O opens the same folder from a picker. See Dropping a folder on the window.
When a page is one self-contained HTML file, an AI that offers to start a server so you can preview it does not need to. Saving the file into your Showspace is enough.
To make that stick, give your agent the standing instruction in Connect your AI to the app. It asks for one self-contained HTML file per page, with no build step, no server, and relative links between pages. Getting an AI to write pages instead of Markdown covers the rest.
lite.computer shows the files in your folder. It does not run a page's server code, logins or database, so a project built on those still needs a web server or a host. A self-contained page needs only the folder it sits in.
Still stuck? Write to support@lite.computer.