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Plainpad

Open-source alternative toEEvernote

Plainpad is a self-hosted note-taking application that lets users run a simple personal notes service on their own server with Docker-based deployment.

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HostingSelf-hostable

LicenseGPL-3.0

LanguagePHP

Last commitAug 10, 2026

Latest releaseApr 23, 2026

Release frequency1.3 per year

Contributors4

Stars422

Forks36

Issues8

What it does

Plainpad is a self-hosted note-taking application focused on simplicity and data ownership. It provides a server-based environment for creating and maintaining notes, with demo data support for populating a database with sample study notes.

The repository documents deployment through Docker Compose: users clone the repository, enter its directory, and start the application with Docker. It is open source under GPL-3.0, and the supplied README does not document multimedia capture, notebooks or tags, web clipping, advanced search, cross-device synchronization, offline access, collaboration, tasks, or calendar integration.

Capabilities

#Connected note vault creation

Categories

#Document Collaboration #Knowledge Management #Note Taking #File Sync & Storage

Built with

CCSS

JJavaScript

JJest

BBash

NNodeJS

PPHP

DDocker

RReact

RReact Router DOM

EESLint

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