Best notes app I've used - love the encryption philosophy. Editors could be better.
I actually real like the blogging integration.
Definitely recommended over bloat ware like EverNote, OneNote etc.
Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work
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#162I do seeking for a lifetime note recently to store all my data. But considering lifetime, choosing subscription should be cautious. The price $2.48/month means $1488/50 years, I would rather choose a buyout payment for $200.
If you pay them $200 now, how do you know they will be around in ten years, let alone fifty?
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#163Standard 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!
There's also listed.to which is nice for blogging.
Re: Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work
#164Standard 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!
> But when I start to blog I find the lack of live preview and spellcheck inconvenient.
What platform are you using Simplenote on? On macOS at least, you can write in Markdown and preview it with Cmd+Shift+P. Spellcheck also seems to work for me, but maybe that's a macOS thing and not specifically a Simplenote thing.
Disclosure: I work at Automattic, but not on Simplenote.
Re: Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work
#165Why is this better than the built in notes app on my phone or Atom and a private GitHub repo? That’s what I use and I’m yet to have a problem.
It's end-to-end encrypted?
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#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where does it say that? I see here - https://standardnotes.org/knowledge/2/what-is-end-to-end-enc... the claim is: "Whenever we move your encrypted data over a network, in order to deliver services to you, it is sent over a strictly secure connection to only our private servers. Because this data is encrypted, we can't read it, and we can’t sell it." (I use Standard Notes, and if there's some element of the security…
it doesn't say that anywhere indeed, but this is my understanding: if you reload the page your login is being preserved without re-entering your password. there's no way to maintain this without storing a key on the server (i.e. either the master key (MK), or a key that encrypts the MK, if the MK is stored locally
Can't you store it in LocalStorage or IndexedDB
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#167Trying to give feedback (heavy user of evernote, notion)
Hate: - huge lack of basic hotkeys: CMD+N for new notes - no styling / formatting at all in the free version, which is a huge bummer. - CMD+, doesn't show the "preferences window" I expected - Markdown styling
Love - extremely fast (evernote and notion became exremely slow to the point I'm close to dropping both) -
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#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
I read the Wikipedia entry for it but it didn't really shed a lot of light on these types of questions: 1. Can I embed images and more specifically can I embed animated GIF files? 2. Can I embed MP3s and play them within the note? 3. Does it support rich text editor functionality including the ability to insert tables easily from programs like Microsoft excel? 4. Can I use multiple fonts in the same individual note i…
1. Embedding of images is pretty much file linking. It can display and let you intract with images inline, but that may not be up to your requirement. 2. Same as above, except playback will require a plugin. 3. Absolutely! Tables are fully supported, with automatic formatting and formulae and lots more. This is one of the strong areas of org-mode. 4. You can get bold, italic, monospaced varieties inline, with minimal…
What’s the experience of searching and editing your org-mode notes on your (presumably Android, since Syncthing doesn’t exist on iOS) phone like? I’ve been interested in org-mode for a while, but most advocates seem to spend all their time in front of a keyboard.
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#169I 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…
> And they tend to be slow electron stuff I've read this a couple of times on HN. Can someone fill me in here? Is the claim that electron apps are slow justified? If so why, technically, are they slow? The main one I use is Slack and it is perfectly fine on my machine.
how can you say that this is perfectly fine : https://streamable.com/lzhvjf
takes ages to open, takes ages to resize, etc etc. my hands shake whenever I have to interact with that mess (thankfully ripcord exists)
my computer is an intel 6900k (16-core) with 64 gb of ram and a gtx 1080 so processing power is not an issue.
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#170I tried them all:
- Joplin
- Standard Notes
- Simplenote
- Onenote, Evernote, Keep
I ended up using the iOS/macOS built-in notes app. It just works. Hear me out why:
+ it is free, incl. tables, dark mode, basic formatting, pictures inline + sync works great (Joplin was the worst of them all) + the UI is simple, clean and intuitive. Apps feel polished and smooth + I can rely on apple that the app will not suddenly be discontinued from one day to the other + all apps have identical features
What I really wished apple notes would offer:
- encryption - AAA webapp - better tables (if you need tables, you will suffer with the current implementation)
I will not go back to the alternatives as they provide an overall worse package for my daily use.