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 The project is still under active development.
 
 ## goals 🎯
-* ubiquitous - builds for web, browser extensions and desktop apps
+* ubiquitous - builds must be available for web, browser extensions and desktop apps
 * self host - teams must be able to self host easily
-* revision control - git like functionality for maintaining team collections
+* revision control - git like functionality for managing team collections
 * data privacy - e2ee for hosted api collections
 * minimalist - avoid feature bloat
 * open source - all functionality opensourced with [MIT](LICENSE) license