It uses Blockstack for the decentralized foundation it's built on. (Among other things) Blockstack stores your data on storage providers you connected to it (such as Google Drive, Dropbox, etc).

Both, Graphite and Blockstack, are fully open source. So there's nobody who will get in between you and your documents.

If it's stored on Google Drive, why not use Google Docs?

If it's stored on Dropbox, why not use any local editor?

Storing an unencrypted file with a single storage provider is neither private nor secure. Blockstack allows users to select multiple storage providers, allowing for data replication and mitigation of any single source of failure. Additionally, encrypting a file client-side before it is stored means that Google or Dropbox or whoever can snoop all they want and not be able to see your data.

Because Crypto