An idea in a note. Its place in time. Its point on the map.
Connect what you learn to understand the whole story.
Free to use. Create an account to keep your notes.
Follow a life, then place each moment within a wider history.
On , in , de Gaulle addresses the French people on the BBC, urging them to continue the fight.
A moment in his life becomes a milestone in my history of France.
In 1944, his story intersects with that of . My notes connect, and the context grows.
The same milestones. A different perspective.
Select a milestone to find the passage it comes from.
Write freely. Connect people, places and events.
Demonstration · sample contentPeople belong to an era. Events happen in a place.
Papyrus gives your notes the depth of the history you study.
From the history of France to the Second World War, then to an individual life. Look closely at a detail, then return to the bigger picture.
One note can belong to several contexts. Your knowledge grows without creating duplicate copies.
Explore connected notesMidway through a chapter, after a documentary or when revisiting your course notes.
Start with an idea. Build on it as you discover more.
Understanding a person’s decisions also means understanding the world they lived in.
Import a Markdown note to get started. Download your notes in the same format, readable in other tools. Your words remain easy to find and reuse.
The new platform is taking shape.
Here is what you can explore today.
Papyrus is a workspace for building your historical knowledge. Write notes, connect them and place their milestones on a timeline and a map. People, places, periods or simply questions: organise your subjects in your own way.
Yes, Papyrus is currently free. An account lets you keep your notes in your personal workspace.
Your account’s notes are saved on our server. A recovery draft may remain on your device if saving fails. You can download each note in Markdown to keep a copy.
You can import an individual Markdown file in Papyrus. Importing a complete vault, its links and existing timelines still needs to be developed. It is not yet automatic.
For now, the map and globe use a present-day geographical background without political borders. Points represent your places and events. Historical maps, territories and routes are among the developments being considered.
Papyrus adds connected notes, timelines and maps. Older timelines remain separate from the Papyrus vault; a complete conversion is not automatic. The current site remains available while we prepare the next chapter.
A book, a subject, a question.
It starts with a single note.