1. A method, comprising: maintaining a workspace in a web-based collaborative environment for a plurality of collaborators, wherein one or more of the collaborators of the workspace perform activities on one or more work items within the workspace; if one or more of the collaborators has a synchronization permission for the workspace, permitting each of the one or more of the collaborators to enable synchronization to occur between the workspace and a local sync folder on each of the one or more of the collaborators' computers when a change is detected at the workspace or at the local sync folder.