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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 cyberlab »

scpedicini wrote: post #151
e3bc54b2 wrote: post #132

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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,…

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. Can I embed images and more specifically can I embed animated GIF files?

This would use a lot of resources and quickly burden Standards Notes' servers. If it means we can't add images and Standard Notes is free because of that, that's a price I'm willing to pay.

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

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Post by ipiz0618 »

aheckler wrote: post #164
ipiz0618 wrote: post #113

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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.

I'm on windows and unfortunately I can't find the spellcheck option. I'd like to sometimes write on iPad, that's why I want an app with cross platform support.

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

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Post by astaza123 »

sealeck wrote: post #166
astaza123 wrote: post #112

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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

you can. however, i hope they don't store it unencrypted - it's a very bad security practice for many reasons. assuming they store it encrypted with a temporary session key, the session key will necessarily be on the server. honestly, storing it on the server in a session storage is not a big deal. my original points are that a) web security is hard b) web e2ee is sort of hype on practice

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

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Post by irrational »

cyberlab wrote: post #191
scpedicini wrote: post #151

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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. Can I embed images and more specifically can I embed animated GIF files? This would use a lot of resources and quickly burden Standards Notes' servers. If it means we can't add images and Standard Notes is free because of that, that's a price I'm willing to pay.

OP is asking about org-mode, not Standard Notes.

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

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Post by cyberlab »

irrational wrote: post #194
cyberlab wrote: post #191

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> 1. Can I embed images and more specifically can I embed animated GIF files? This would use a lot of resources and quickly burden Standards Notes' servers. If it means we can't add images and Standard Notes is free because of that, that's a price I'm willing to pay.

OP is asking about org-mode, not Standard Notes.

Thanks for pointing that out. But my point still stands!

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

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Post by kzrdude »

e3bc54b2 wrote: post #158
scpedicini wrote: post #151

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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…

How do you organize suites of notes in org-mode? Do you keep very big documents or one file per project or current task, or how is it divided? And is it possible to have links and hierarchies?

I'm still shopping for a good vim-based note taking solution.

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

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Post by Andrew_nenakhov »

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…

> 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.

> 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.

You can't have both. If the service has account recovery after you lose your password or encryption keys, it can only mean that there is no any meaningful encryption. Just don't lose your passwords, it's quite simple these days with passwords managers.

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

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Post by ynniv »

kzrdude wrote: post #196
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…

How do you organize suites of notes in org-mode? Do you keep very big documents or one file per project or current task, or how is it divided? And is it possible to have links and hierarchies? I'm still shopping for a good vim-based note taking solution.

I use deft. A hot key brings up the list, then typing narrows the list based on name or content.

https://jblevins.org/projects/deft/

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Post by da39a3ee »

jcelerier wrote: post #169
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.

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.

I guess you're right! I'd never noticed the laggy resizing (I use a laptop so nearly always have apps taking up the full screen). But I see that also (recent MBP w/ 32Gb RAM).

I just did a comparison with slack running in chrome and, maybe I'm saying something silly here, but the difference seems to be that I'm simply unable to resize the chrome window at the same speed when the tab inside is displaying slack. So I was unable to "leave the content behind" as you did in your video of the electron app (and as I was also able to do with the electron app).

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

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Post by da39a3ee »

infinityplus1 wrote: post #182
thecodrr wrote: post #94

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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.

Are you referring to the way VS Code is slow to display the syntax highlighting on file open sometimes? (Is that when it's getting highlighting via LSP?)
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