Features
What Papyra does
Six things, in the order a newcomer should meet them. All of it ships today — you can try most of it in the browser demo without installing anything.
- 01
Your notes are ordinary files
Each note is a plain Markdown file with a YAML header, in a folder on your server. Copy it, back it up, or open it in another app — Papyra watches the folder and picks up whatever changed.
Markdown + frontmatter · Atomic writes · Obsidian-compatible - 02
There is no save button
Edits are written a second and a half after you stop typing, and the label above the note tells you the moment they are safely stored. Older versions are kept, so you can scrub back through a note as it was.
Autosave · Snapshots · Time machine · Conflict resolver - 03
It keeps working offline
With the server unreachable, Papyra still opens, still shows your notes and still takes edits. They queue on the device and upload themselves the moment the server is back.
Installable app · Write queue · Automatic replay - 04
Search it, then ask it
Full-text search over every note, plus meaning-based search that finds the note you were thinking of. Then ask a question and get an answer drawn from your own writing, with citations you can open.
Lucene index · Semantic search · Local AI · Cited answers - 05
Share a note, mention a person
Send a link that expires, or share directly with someone on your server. Name a colleague with @ and the block you mentioned them in lands in their inbox. Link notes to each other with double brackets.
Expiring links · Wiki links · Backlinks · @mentions - 06
Yours, and only yours
Every account is sealed inside its own folder. Lock a note behind your fingerprint, sign in through your company identity provider, and let Papyra keep encrypted backups and a git mirror for you.
Passkey vault · SSO · Encrypted backups · Git mirror