plainva

Local-first Markdown vault editor that opens Obsidian vaults, synced via your own storage.

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Plainva is an open-source, local-first Markdown vault editor for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It opens existing Obsidian-compatible vaults without migration, adds Notion-style database views over the same plain files, and syncs through the user's own WebDAV/Nextcloud, S3, or cloud-drive storage rather than a proprietary backend.

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