Papyrus is a free, open-source, and modern note manager focused on privacy, socials, and better user interface.

Papyrus is developed by Aseman Land, the team behind Cutegram telegram client. It’s a fork of Kaqaz project by sialan labs and works on Linux, Windows, Mac, Android and iOS soon.

The software provides both desktop and touch version and features:

• Notes management by means of labels and categories
• Sorting notes by day
• Advance and Smart searching in notes
• To-Do papers
• Backing up notes
• Encrypted synchronization via Dropbox among all your devices
• Supporting left-to-right and right-to-left languages
• Sharing papers with other applications
• Assigning password for protecting notes
• Attach map and weather to note informations automatically
• Attaching photos, audio files and folders to any note
• Search on papers by location
• Capability of running and sync data on all operating systems (Android, Windows, Linux, Mac and soon other operating systems)
• Canvas for painting
• Search on papers using weather and temperature, your notes wrote.
• Can move data to sd-card (on old phones)
• Status and statistics page for notes
• Synchronizing files

Install Papyrus in Ubuntu/Linux Mint:

The note manager has an official PPA with supports for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Linux Mint 17 so far.

Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run below commands one by one to add PPA and install the app:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:aseman/desktop-apps

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install papyrus

An alternative way is to download Linux Installer from the bottom of its homepage. Give executable permission and run the installer wizard:

1. Select download the installer that matches your OS type, 32-bit or 64-bit
2. In terminal navigate to Downloads page by cd ~/Downloads
3. make the installer executable by command chmod +x FILENAME
4. Finally start the install via ./FILENAME