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Re: Show HN: Notesnook – A cross-platform privacy focused zero-knowledge notes app

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Post by tibu »

thecodrr wrote: post #6

Hello everyone, lead developer of Notesnook here. We started out development of Notesnook a year ago with the aim of providing a 100% privacy focused note-taking app. At the time, Standard Notes was getting the spotlight for it's privacy fearures. However, it lacked many essential things that we thought were important: 1. Very bad mobile app experience 2. Hard to navigate and use 3. No community 4. No customer-develo…

Verification email comes from another name and domain. Would be worth to sync it with the app name. I almost did not find it.

Re: Show HN: Notesnook – A cross-platform privacy focused zero-knowledge notes app

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Post by thecodrr »

tibu wrote: post #41
thecodrr wrote: post #6

Hello everyone, lead developer of Notesnook here. We started out development of Notesnook a year ago with the aim of providing a 100% privacy focused note-taking app. At the time, Standard Notes was getting the spotlight for it's privacy fearures. However, it lacked many essential things that we thought were important: 1. Very bad mobile app experience 2. Hard to navigate and use 3. No community 4. No customer-develo…

Verification email comes from another name and domain. Would be worth to sync it with the app name. I almost did not find it.

Yes, that is intentional. We are using a central identity provider for auth, that's why.

I will take this into account though.

Re: Show HN: Notesnook – A cross-platform privacy focused zero-knowledge notes app

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Post by alphagrep12345 »

thecodrr wrote: post #22
alphagrep12345 wrote: post #21

How does syncing across devices work?

I tried to keep the syncing as simple as possible. All data is first encrypted on the device using the user's key and then pushed and saved in the server db. When you login from another device your data is fetched and decrypted and shown to you.

Do you save the user's key in server to decrypt? If that's the case, how are the notes truly 'private'?

Re: Show HN: Notesnook – A cross-platform privacy focused zero-knowledge notes app

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Post by thecodrr »

alphagrep12345 wrote: post #43
thecodrr wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried to keep the syncing as simple as possible. All data is first encrypted on the device using the user's key and then pushed and saved in the server db. When you login from another device your data is fetched and decrypted and shown to you.

Do you save the user's key in server to decrypt? If that's the case, how are the notes truly 'private'?

No, not at all. All encryption/decryption happens client-side. That is why it's zero-knowledge.

Re: Show HN: Notesnook – A cross-platform privacy focused zero-knowledge notes app

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Post by thecodrr »

alphagrep12345 wrote: post #43
thecodrr wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried to keep the syncing as simple as possible. All data is first encrypted on the device using the user's key and then pushed and saved in the server db. When you login from another device your data is fetched and decrypted and shown to you.

Do you save the user's key in server to decrypt? If that's the case, how are the notes truly 'private'?

The key stays with the user only. We have no knowledge of it.
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