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I. The Problem: AI-Era Document Sprawl

For the past year, I've been drowning in AI-generated HTML files.

Claude artifacts: ~20/day. ChatGPT canvas: ~10/day. Cursor and CodeBuddy reports: 5-8/day. They scatter across a dozen folders. Double-clicking only lets me view; fixing a typo means re-running the original prompt; finding historical versions is impossible.

I tried several alternatives and none worked:

Solution Why it didn't work

VSCode Needs a preview plugin; rich-text editing requires switching to source mode

Notion Doesn't accept HTML uploads; copy-paste loses styles

Browser bookmarks Can't edit, can't annotate

Self-hosted static site Too heavy; every change means build → deploy

So I built DocCenter — a local workbench at localhost:9901 purpose-built for this disease.

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