WORLDGATEOrdnung!
The document archive for families and small households. Folders you already understand, and a search that actually finds things.
The name: Ordnung is German for “order” – things in their place, tidy and easy to find. With an exclamation mark it is what you call out when order is needed: “Order!”.
Why Ordnung!
Folders are the truth
A document lives where you would look for it, as a normal PDF on your disk. Without the app everything stays readable in Finder, Explorer or via SMB, in twenty years too.
Keep your folders
Ordnung! reads an existing folder structure as it is. Nothing has to be renamed or re-sorted; the top level becomes areas such as “Family” or “Max”.
Learns from your archive
From the folders you already have, Ordnung! learns who writes to you and where their post belongs. Every document you file makes the suggestions better, no AI needed.
Inbox with suggestions
New scans and photos arrive in the inbox. Ordnung! reads the text, finds date and sender and suggests folder and title. One click files it; nothing happens without you.
Search that finds
Full text across every page, scans included thanks to OCR. Partial words and small typos still match, hits are highlighted.
Collections for your tax return
Gather receipts from many folders in a collection “Tax return 2026” without moving them. Download as ZIP or as one PDF for your tax advisor.
Fill in and sign
Fill in forms, add text, ticks, the date and your stored signature. The result is saved as a new document next to the original.
Rules for humans
Instead of typing conditions, Ordnung! asks after filing: “Post from Nordlicht Insurance here from now on?” A traffic light shows how reliable a rule is.
Areas and rights
Each person, the household or a house is an area. Who may see and file what is set per area. Everyone sees their areas in one shared tree.
On the phone
As a web app on the home screen: photograph letters with the camera, several pages become one PDF, iPhone photos (HEIC) included. Or simply forward a PDF by mail to your own inbox address. Search, view, share, no app store.
And also
- Mail inbox: forward PDFs, known senders only
- Old files for papers you keep but no longer need
- Second factor, alerts via ntfy
- Tags and drag and drop
- Trash with a configurable period
- AI optional: Claude, Ollama or OpenAI-compatible
- REST API for everything
- Move over from Paperless-ngx
- Runs on amd64 and arm64 (Raspberry Pi)
Install
Ordnung! runs as a Docker container, for example on a NAS, a Raspberry Pi or a home server. There is a ready-made template for Unraid, where you only fill in the paths.
Then open http://server:8440, create the first administrator and set up archive and inbox folders under Settings → Storage. Every step is in the manual.
services:
ordnung:
image: ghcr.io/orohde/ordnung:latest
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- "8440:8000"
volumes:
- ./archiv:/archiv
- ./data:/data
- ./eingang:/eingang
environment:
- TZ=Europe/BerlinOrdnung! is free software under the AGPL-3.0. No paid edition, no cloud, your documents stay with you.