Best Note-Taking Apps for On-Premises of 2025

Paperwork is an open-source and self-hosted alternative for services like Evernote®, Microsoft OneNote® or Google Keep®. Paperwork believes that your private data should remain yours and that no other person or company should have access to it. Our goal is to create software that allows everyone to store and manage their documents in a secure cloud. This applies to anyone, whether they are a computer scientist who has confidential data, a journalist, freedom-of-speech advocate, or just your grandparents. Our goal is to be an open-source, privacy-focused alternative to other note-taking programs, for managing ideas and documents. Paperwork is currently in development. To get Paperwork running in its current state, you need to understand how Docker and DNS work and the basics of HTTP proxying. Experience with Traefik or Minio may be a plus.