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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

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Post by thecodrr »

FiloSottile wrote: post #174
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…

Is the cryptography protocol documented anywhere? The link on your website under the end-to-end heading leads to the Privacy Policy, that only mentions "XChaCha20-Poly1305-IETF & Argon2" which is far from enough details, especially for a closed source app with no audits. From the names it sounds like you use libsodium, which is good, but it doesn't make rolling your own protocol safe.

We are a bit lacking on the documentation side currently. However, there is no new protocol. It says "XChaCha20-Poly1305-IETF & Argon2" because that's the core part. Everything else is standard.

I'll write up a doc on how encryption + syncing works though. And I have full plans to open source the security related parts of the app.

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

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Post by infinityplus1 »

thecodrr wrote: post #94
dsissitka wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I see people down voting without any reason. What makes you think they didn't have a reason? I didn't downvote you but you've made a few divisive assertions. For example, your "blazing fast" is my "performs acceptably".

A typo. I meant "without giving any reason". Also, I'd be interested to know what you count as blazing fast.

Try opening a big complex html file and scroll immediately in VS Code and in Sublime text. Sublime Text blows VS Code out of water. This lag made me switch back to Sublime Text from VS Code.

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

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Post by billyjobob »

sjy wrote: post #168
e3bc54b2 wrote: post #158

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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.

Not sure how useful it is given Apple’s restrictions, but it does exist: https://www.mobiussync.com/

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

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Post by yokoprime »

sjy wrote: post #168
e3bc54b2 wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Möbius Sync is an implementation of SyncThing for iOS

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

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Post by billyjobob »

thecodrr wrote: post #83
da39a3ee wrote: post #81

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> 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.

It's mostly hearsay. Electron is highly optimized (it's chromium after all). Making an electron app doesn't make it automatically slow and clunky. That's absurd. Sure it is a browser and it takes a little more Ram than you are used to (but most machines nowadays have 8 to 16 gigs of RAM so not a huge issue). What does make an electron app slow is the app itself. Obviously. You have VSCode that is blazing fast even fo…

IntelliJ is not native, it’s Java, which ironically used to be considered a slow VM unsuitable for desktop apps, until Electron came along and was like “you think that’s slow? Hold my beer!” Now I much prefer Java desktop apps over Electron ones.

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

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Post by Veen »

ergot_vacation wrote: post #53

I don't mean to be snarky, but what's the purpose of apps like this? Notepad.exe is 227 KB, runs instantly and flawlessly on even ancient environments, and gives all the basics. If you need something more "Power User," Notepad++ gives some language-sensitive formatting, tabs for easy switching between files, and plugins for custom use cases. If you need something more specific to a given language, that's an IDE, not…

For some people, notepad.exe is sufficient, but not for everyone. I’m a professional researcher and writer. My notes are much more than “the software equivalent of grabbing a scrap of paper.” They’re an essential information management and organization tool without which I couldn’t do my job.

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

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Post by trinix912 »

qbasic_forever wrote: post #23
CoryAlexMartin wrote: post #5

I really wish this weren't a clunky 200MB Electron app.

I use the web version and it's great, no install or anything (obviously need internet access).

> obviously need internet access

Yea because no one ever needs to access their notes anywhere with bad/no connection.

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

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Post by cyberlab »

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…

> 3. They don't allow any form of account recovery. Which sounds really epic on paper but once you forget your password, you lose all your data.

I actually like this. It's not a misfeature, but a feature. Too often email is a single point of failure and it's how the bulk of account takeover attacks happen. Compromise an email account, and you compromise every account attached to that email. Just don't forget your password to Standard Notes. Can't be hard right?

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