Paperwork Note-Taking
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OpenSource note-taking & archiving alternative to Evernote, Microsoft OneNote & Google Keep.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Country of Origin
Germany
EU
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
- PHP
- Cloudron
Discontinued
The Paperwork project is now officially dead.
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Open Source (AGPL-3.0) and Free product.Rating
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Office & Productivity, Development, Remote Work & EducationGitHub repository
- 7,825 Stars
- 647 Forks
- 32 Open Issues
- Updated Apr 28, 2025 (Archived)
Comments and Reviews
The best thing about it - it's FOSS!
The front page states
On GitHub i see there is activity about once a month or so. The Readme elaborates on the above:
This isn't really an application so much as a project. I don't think it should be listed here.
This app was promising in V1. However, there's a new leader in the PHP world for evernote and onentoe alternatives. Checkout Bookstack on Github. Easy to install, and does everything this system seemed to be aimed at.
Paperwork is undergoing a rewrite and is, according to the webiste, " ...in its very early development phase and not yet usable." (as of early August 2018)
Is there any version that is available/functional that you are aware of?
This falls short of a full review, but:
One of the ideas behind Evernote is that it has clients on different desktops and a browser plugin for convenience. Linux users, for whom Evernote provides no client, have to login via the web, which is annoying. (Unless they use Nixnote.) Paperwork is all web interface. So no offline notes, one gathers. Also there's no browser plugin, so far as I can see.
The demo on the site doesn't work. You have to download the files to find other online demos mentioned. What a pointless inconvenience.
By contrast, Turtl and Tagspaces both have clients on all platforms and browser plugins. (And encryption in the case of Turtl.)
[Edited by JohnFastman, January 08]