iCloud Drive as a Common Data Location, More Like Dropbox?

I used to keep all my fanfic on Dropbox: all my PDFs, docs, epubs, audio files and plain text notes there to access from my iPad, iPhone, and MacBook Pro.

(I'm just one person, so I don't have to worry about managing versions.)

I can't seem to do this with iCloud Drive. When I create a Project folder at iCloud Drive's root level, my iOS apps can't see the data there. The iOS apps all want their files to be inside their own app-specific folders.

Is there a way around this?

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Gluten-Free Pecan Shortbread Cookies

Makes 30 ~2in cookies
adapted from
Gluten Free Flavor Flours by Alice Medrich with Maya Klein

170 g (=12 tablespoons or 1.5 sticks) softened unsalted butter, cut into chunks

( really, how can you go wrong with that much butter? )