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

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Post by Aeolun »

yarcob wrote: post #119

I'm always curious who is behind a company. How many people work there, how it is funded, where they are based, type of corporation, etc. These things make a big difference. Eg I typically trust a non profit that's been around for a couple of years more than a venture funded startup that just launched. This company doesn't even state where they are based or what the name of the company is on the website. They have a…

This is normally required to be on the website for some countries. Guess they’re not in one of those.

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

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Post by e3bc54b2 »

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…

I have tried many note-taking apps. From Evernote to Google Keep to OneNote to Standard notes yo plain old notepad to Zotero to Word and really honestly many more.

If you say this list is all over the place, then that is because requirements vary depending on purpose, not the other way around.

After almost a decade of experimenting, I have come to realise that the best note-taking tool by far is org-mode.

It is free, it is extensible, it is not going anywhere in next decade+, it let's me encrypt on my own terms, it let's me store and share on my own terms, it is as lightweight or as heavyweight as I want, it can be as pretty or as ugly as I want, I can edit it anywhere, search and organization is ridiculously advanced compared to anything else out there (or everything else is ridiculously behind).

Its biggest strength and arguably biggest weakness is its tied to Emacs. It is a horrible learning curve for beginners, which is why it took me a decade to get to org-mode in the first place, but once you have climbed that hill, you are basically on top of the world.

Everybody serious about note-taking should give org-mode a try.

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

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Post by ttiurani »

Sebguer wrote: post #129
ttiurani wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Company information can in fact be found on the website, but I hate it that they use a .org website when they're clearly just yet another startup.

What does this mean? Their app is open source: https://github.com/standardnotes/web The first release was in 2017? I don't see any sign of them having taken any funding?

Being open source does not mean they aren't commercial. IMO using a .org as their only domain is flat out misleading: the honest way is to have only the source code and community in the .org and the commercial offering in a .com.

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

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Post by Rebelgecko »

ipiz0618 wrote: post #113
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…

Thanks for posting! It checks most of the boxes for me. I've been using Simplenote which is perfect and minimal for note taking. But when I start to blog I find the lack of live preview and spellcheck inconvenient. Looking forward to the desktop apps and possibly offline support!

If you're on a Mac, Simplenote works great in conjunction with Nvalt (a fork of Notational Velocity)

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

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Post by [deleted] »

mastazi wrote: post #126

is there an issue with my browser, or there are zero screenshots on that page? Anyone has a screenshot? I'm a bit of a visual person and I need to see stuff, just reading features lists won't do it for me... Edit: under the "extensions" page, if you scroll down a bit, you will eventually find some screenshots.

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

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Post by Sebguer »

ttiurani wrote: post #133
Sebguer wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does this mean? Their app is open source: https://github.com/standardnotes/web The first release was in 2017? I don't see any sign of them having taken any funding?

Being open source does not mean they aren't commercial. IMO using a .org as their only domain is flat out misleading: the honest way is to have only the source code and community in the .org and the commercial offering in a .com.

That's entirely fair! I don't think they're a 'typical startup' though, at least from a cursory look. Generally, it doesn't feel like there's much adherence to TLD norms these days at all.

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

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Post by skinkestek »

zenjester wrote: post #2

tried it left because of price, lack of options, lack of reliable sync https://joplinapp.org/ is far better and cheaper option

Another happy user here :-)

I use it with NextCloud sync to a Heztner NextCloud instance. Data is all mine, they can even be E2E-encrypted if I want.

Now a healthy plugin ecosystem is forming as well.

I've already sent some money once or twice and I am actively looking for places where I can contribute code as well.

Recommending others consider that as well.

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

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Post by austhrow743 »

Sebguer wrote: post #129
ttiurani wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Company information can in fact be found on the website, but I hate it that they use a .org website when they're clearly just yet another startup.

What does this mean? Their app is open source: https://github.com/standardnotes/web The first release was in 2017? I don't see any sign of them having taken any funding?

I don’t think they’re a startup. They are a software company selling a saas though.

.com for commercial, .org for non commercial organisations is the historic breakdown.

Sure, people use all sorts of domain extensions these days. That said I don’t think Twitch is trying to trick people in to thinking they’re based in Tuvalu whereas I can’t say the same with this company and being a non commercial organisation.

Don’t see what open source has to do with anything. Tons of very much profit seeking companies have open source code.

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

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Post by ttiurani »

austhrow743 wrote: post #138
Sebguer wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does this mean? Their app is open source: https://github.com/standardnotes/web The first release was in 2017? I don't see any sign of them having taken any funding?

I don’t think they’re a startup. They are a software company selling a saas though. .com for commercial, .org for non commercial organisations is the historic breakdown. Sure, people use all sorts of domain extensions these days. That said I don’t think Twitch is trying to trick people in to thinking they’re based in Tuvalu whereas I can’t say the same with this company and being a non commercial organisation. Don’t…

Clearly a VC-funded startup is worse than a bootstrapped one, but IMO whether or not a company is a startup or not comes down to if they want exponential growth or not. It doesn't say that they do on the website but I nowadays assume that if they didn't, they'd proudly proclaim it.

But I could be wrong about the startup part and they in fact just want to be a profitable small business.

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

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Post by Tistron »

andrewrothman wrote: post #61
PaulBGD_ wrote: post #21

I 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'm in the process of the same switch. I've liked Standard Notes. It's really nice that it's open source and encrypted. However I ran into some instances of cross-device conflicting edits which were a bit annoying, and Obsidian's UI and Second Brain features swayed me to try it. The graph view is really cool and I realized I didn't need syncing as much as I thought. Obsidian does seem to also have a paid sync feature…

I set up syncthing on my two computers and my phone. It was surprisingly simple and works pretty well (after I turned off battery optimisation on it on the phone). using Markor as an acceptable way of making small edits and notes on my phone for fleshing out later.
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