Paper User guide
Coming from another app
For people who used Obsidian or Notion. How to bring your notes and where each thing went.
If you're coming from a Markdown vault, almost everything works the same.
Bring your vault
- Settings → Import and export → Import.
- Choose the vault folder or a
.zipof it. Folders, subfolders, links, frontmatter, callouts, tasks, tables and images come along. - If you'd rather keep it separate, first create a new vault from the top of the sidebar and import there.
Where each thing went
| You used | In Paper |
|---|---|
| Vault | Vault, switched from the top of the sidebar |
[[Link]], [[Link|alias]], [[Link#section]] | The same, and they follow when you rename |
| Backlinks | "Mentioned in", at the end of the page, with unlinked mentions |
| Graph view | Idea map, with the "around one page" mode |
| Daily notes | Today button, one page per day inside Journal |
| Command palette | Ctrl K, with filters like #tag and open tasks |
Callouts > [!note] | Callout block, and the .md keeps > [!note] |
| Kanban plugin | Board block, built in |
| Sync | Free Google Drive, or groups with live editing |
What's not there yet
- Canvas and queries that combine many pages.
- Third-party plugins. For automations, use access tokens.