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Re: Show HN: AlephNote – A Simplenote/Standardnote client

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Post by rahimnathwani » Wed, Mar 08, 2017, 1:26 AM UTC

mobitar wrote: post #29

rahimnathwani wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd never heard of Standard Notes until today. Is there any reason I should switch to it (from Simplenote), if I'm not interested in self-hosting?

You don't need to self-host on Standard Notes. The app is focused on privacy and longevity. Check out https://standardnotes.org .

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that I would have to self-host. I meant to ask what the advantages were over Simplenote. The option to self-host is one. But I wondered about the other advantages.

I see on that page they say "That's why we built Standard File ... backs up your data to multiple locations, ...", and this sounds interesting (I'm not sure of the best way to backup Simplenote data, except perhaps with a combination of nvpy and git) but the Standard File page doesn't talk about backups at all.

How do you ensure your data doesn't go away?

Re: Show HN: AlephNote – A Simplenote/Standardnote client

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Post by endisukaj » Wed, Mar 08, 2017, 7:54 AM UTC

jclos wrote: post #27

I don't know if it's bad form to do feature requests on HN but having gone through a lot of these note clients (see list [here]( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13642527) ) the three-ish features that I'd like to see on a note client that can, but does not have to, sync to the cloud and that I couldn't seem to find in a single one are: * Support for LaTeX math notation (like Zim-Wiki) * Support for code (like Qu…

Have you ever tried [org-mode][1]? It's an emacs major mode for taking notes, making to-do lists, building websites, having an agenda, etc... It's quite powerful since it's basically a markup language. It can be exported to multiple formats (including latex) and supports writing code and even executing it inside the same file with [babel][2].

Everything's saved as a plain text file so you can sync them across different devices with Dropbox, Drive or even git (which I use).

[^1](http://orgmode.org/)

[^2](http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/)

Re: Show HN: AlephNote – A Simplenote/Standardnote client

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Post by jclos » Wed, Mar 08, 2017, 12:33 PM UTC

endisukaj wrote: post #32

jclos wrote: post #27

I don't know if it's bad form to do feature requests on HN but having gone through a lot of these note clients (see list [here]( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13642527) ) the three-ish features that I'd like to see on a note client that can, but does not have to, sync to the cloud and that I couldn't seem to find in a single one are: * Support for LaTeX math notation (like Zim-Wiki) * Support for code (like Qu…

Have you ever tried [org-mode][1]? It's an emacs major mode for taking notes, making to-do lists, building websites, having an agenda, etc... It's quite powerful since it's basically a markup language. It can be exported to multiple formats (including latex) and supports writing code and even executing it inside the same file with [babel][2]. Everything's saved as a plain text file so you can sync them across differe…

I've tried emacs a long time ago but could never get it to stick. With everybody advising me to switch to org-mode I might have to give it another try.