Plainpad
Plainpad handles modern note taking application for the cloud as a self-hosted solution.
Overview
📓 Plainpad - Self Hosted Note Taking App Open source note taking app, use Plainpad to organize your notes, keep your data private. The project has 388 GitHub stars and is licensed under GPL-3.0.
Getting Started
Source: GitHub README
To clone and run this application, you’ll need Docker installed on your computer. From your command line:
## Normalized Features
*Source: tool-features-normalized.json*
docker, docker compose.
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