what's the point of "end-to-end encrypted" if the keys are still on the server?
Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work
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#32The use of the name "Standard" annoys me, it's presumptuous. You have to earn "standard" status, you can't just claim it Also, Electron makes this a no-go for me.
What's the problem with Electron?
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#33I looked everywhere on the website and not a single screenshot. Has a CLI?
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#34Screen shots guys... you gotta have screen shots! Even folks who love the philosophy want screenshots.
..and a link to the source code.
After the long rant about software complexity, I wanted to see their code to see if they walk the walk.
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#35Screen shots guys... you gotta have screen shots! Even folks who love the philosophy want screenshots.
+1, I knew some stores require screenshots to be part of the app listing, so I clicked on the iOS and Android links to see those.
The app store preview shows iPad form factor so that's pretty useful.
But for desktop, I clicked on windows expecting a Microsoft store link, but instead it starts an immediate 101MB binary download, so beware.
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#36> Find out what it feels like to write with total privacy. This made me laugh. You mean like on a piece of paper?
A piece of paper doesn't have the same level of privacy as something like Standard Notes. Anyone who finds your written paper notes can read them. Standard Notes is encrypted, and password protected. It can't ever be read by the provider or the host (which is the major problem with the majority of syncing notes apps), and it can't be read by a nosy friend or family member, unless you leave your computer unlocked and…
How do you know I'm not burning the notes afterward?
Re: Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work
#37The use of the name "Standard" annoys me, it's presumptuous. You have to earn "standard" status, you can't just claim it Also, Electron makes this a no-go for me.
What's the problem with Electron?
The usual arguments include performance waste of an entire browser for a single tab, especially while running concurrently with a web browser, and that is an "easy way out" of doing cross platform.
Side note: this is why I run Trilium Notes, another notes app, in the web browser instead of as a desktop app; I am already good at managing tabs, and not being able to merge the electron tab into my browser makes it harder to deal with (and less performant)
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
A piece of paper doesn't have the same level of privacy as something like Standard Notes. Anyone who finds your written paper notes can read them. Standard Notes is encrypted, and password protected. It can't ever be read by the provider or the host (which is the major problem with the majority of syncing notes apps), and it can't be read by a nosy friend or family member, unless you leave your computer unlocked and…
How do you know I'm not burning the notes afterward?
I mean, if you never want to read your notes again, sure, that's more secure. But writing stuff you will immediately burn and never want to read again in the future is such a different thing from using a syncing notes tool that the comparison doesn't really make sense.
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#39I used Standard Notes paid for over a year, and switched to Obsidian recently. My experience with SN was that the editors are half fleshed out, incompatible with each other, and make it hard to use with other tools. The notes can be markdown, html, text, or other formats as well as being encrypted. This makes exporting very annoying to use. Contrast to other tools like obsidian.. it’s just markdown. I can sync it acr…
I did the exact same swap recently. Obsidian is far superior.
I even paid for the 5 year Standard Notes subscription as I believed in the project and assumed design improvements would come, but the editor experience never improved and just feels clunky.
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#40Screen shots guys... you gotta have screen shots! Even folks who love the philosophy want screenshots.
..and a link to the source code. After the long rant about software complexity, I wanted to see their code to see if they walk the walk.
..which I googled for and found on GitHub.
> We believe in building software that lasts.
(emphasis theirs).
So, I had a look. Their GitHub has dozens of repos, and the desktop one depends on the web one? Wait, the whole thing is written in typescript? I have absolutely nothing against typescript, but I honestly would have expected a boring language, with a simple repo, not with git submodules....and definitely not something that depends on web tech, of any kind.