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Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work

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Re: Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work

#101

Post by kushan2020 »

Me including lot of people hate the following about todays note apps which have one or more of the following:

- Forces you to split screen of writing markdown on one side and rendered version on another.

- Is a bloated electron app.

- Data is not portable i.e. there is proprietary format or saved in the servers.

It is a shameless pug but I am working on creating a WYSIWYG note taking app [1] that is web based, portable and fast. I would love to offer that as an alternative if anyone is interested.

[1] https://bangle.io

Re: Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work

#102

Post by kushan2020 »

GekkePrutser wrote: post #76

I really miss tomboy (not the new ng version). I used it for years and it was amazing. Rich text without having to use markdown. Razor fast responsiveness when searching. Instant hyperlinks just by typing the name of another note. Excellent keyboard shortcuts too. I really miss it but it was no longer maintained and falling into disrepair on newer OSes due to lacking support for DPI scaling and dark modes. I use onen…

Hey if you want to give my app https://bangle.io a try, it checks off your requirement of being a WYSIWYG note taking web editor.

I would say the friction to try it out is pretty low as there is nothing to lock you in. It simply reads and writes data in a markdown format directly to your hard drive -- think VSCode but for notes.

Re: Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work

#103

Post by system_32 »

thecodrr wrote: post #66
bachmeier wrote: post #65

I don't mind paying, but I've never cared for this product's pricing. If you want to pay monthly, it's $10 a month, which no sane person would pay for a plain notes editor and nothing else. The reasonable price is $30/year but you have to pay for five years in advance . Sure, we all have to eat, but it's not a sign of confidence if you're trying to push me to pay for five years in advance. If you believe in what you'…

For this, you might find Notesnook ( https://notesnook.com/ ) a better alternative. I mean its still $4.49 but I suppose that's still a lot cheaper. (Disclaimer: I am the developer so this may be a shameless plug, idk).

Is there a limit of how many times you can try to self promote in one post?

Re: Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work

#105

Post by maxgashkov »

thecodrr wrote: post #80

Standard Notes is a phenomenal note taking app and one of the first to bring encryption in note taking. They take security very seriously and have multiple third party audits. With that said, the bad outweigh the good. I don't mean to be a pessimist here (SN is inspirational) but: 1. Their free plan is extremely lacking. You can't even try out many of their editors. 2. Their pro plan mostly only offers editors. I am…

5.1. No keyboard shortcuts. Not even for a 'New Note': https://github.com/standardnotes/forum/issues/1119

The refund process is not automatic either, be prepared for a back-and-forth with customer support if you want to cancel a subscription.

Re: Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work

#106

Post by TylerE »

mkl wrote: post #87
thecodrr wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I myself thought no account recovery automatically meant safety. It sounds very cool. However, in the past week alone, around 10 users of Notesnook came asking for a way to recover their account because they had forgotten their password. I mean, why should privacy be at such a huge risk to users' data? For the tech savy, Notesnook offers account recovery by giving the user option (actual kind of forcing) to save the…

So they download the encryption key (unprotected so no password needed) as a file, and they keep the file safe? That's the kind of thing I've been thinking about for an idea of mine. What did those 10 users ask about? How to use the encryption key file?

The problem with that sort of thing is that you now have one of two situations

1. Either the key is only as secure as what ever random online service you have it backed up on (in which case, it might as well be stored at SN and save the user all kinds of headaches)

2. The key isn't backed up, and this won't be realized until the worst possible time.

Re: Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work

#109

Post by SCLeo »

Just making sure, Standard Notes is text only (i.e. No support for hand-draw lines), right?

If that is correct, I assume then it will be very difficult for people like me whose note taking habits heavily revolves around drawing diagrams/annotating pictures to use.

Nothing wrong with Standard Notes. I am just trying to confirm it is indeed not the tool for me.

Re: Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work

#110

Post by tekchip »

They take security very seriously...if you pay. Two factor being behind the paywall is absurd.

I called this concern out with the creators and was summarily dismissed with no good explanation why security, a key feature, takes a back seat to money.

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