# Papyra

> A calm, self-hosted home for your notes.

Source page: https://www.lyfie.org/projects/papyra/
Made by Lyfie (https://www.lyfie.org), the open-source organisation founded by Rahul NS Anand.

- Type: app
- Status: Stable
- Licence: GPL-3.0 (free and open source)
- Website: https://papyra.app
- Documentation: https://papyra.app/docs/
- Source code: https://github.com/lyfie-org/papyra
- Highlights: Plain Markdown, Self-hosted, Live collaboration, No telemetry

## Get started

```bash
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lyfie-org/papyra/main/docker-compose.hub.yml
docker compose -f docker-compose.hub.yml up -d
```

Papyra is a note-taking app you run yourself. It is as easy as sticky notes and
as deep as a wiki: search, links and backlinks, version history, live
collaboration, comments, locked notes and offline editing. Every note stays an
ordinary Markdown file in a folder you own.

## Your folder is the storage

There is no database to export from. Open the folder in Obsidian, sync it with
Syncthing, back it up with `rsync` or edit a file by hand — Papyra watches the
folder and picks up whatever changed.

## Nothing phones home

No telemetry, analytics, crash reports or usage pings. The app makes no
third-party requests — even its fonts come from your server. Locked notes are
encrypted on disk, and sign-in supports passkeys, authenticator codes and
single sign-on.

## Moves in tonight

Import a Google Keep Takeout archive or an Obsidian vault, or drag any `.md`
file onto the desk. One Docker container, one volume, on amd64 or arm64 — a NAS,
a Raspberry Pi or a small VPS.

## Built on Luthor

Papyra's editor is [Luthor](/projects/luthor/), Lyfie's open-source rich-text
editor. Every improvement to one lands in the other.

## What it does

- **Bring your notes.** Drag a file onto your desk and it becomes a note — headings, checklists and all.
- **It saves itself.** No save button, ever. Every version is kept, so you can always go back.
- **Find anything.** Every word of every note and to-do, in a keystroke — matches highlighted.
- **Lock what’s private.** Locked notes are encrypted and open only with your PIN — or your fingerprint.
- **Easy on the eyes.** Warm paper by day, soft graphite by night.