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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 PaulBGD_ »

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 across devices just by sharing the folder. SN is a great concept, but there’s a lot of design decisions I hated while using it.

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

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Post by X6S1x6Okd1st »

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

Yup. I switched from evernote which was syncing poorly to Joplin and it's been great. Writing ~daily notes for over 2 years between ~three devices and it's had a problem exactly once due to onedrive changing their APIs out from under Joplin

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

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Post by rdschouw »

dsizzle wrote: post #12
grillermo wrote: post #11

It is not safe(long term wise) for me as long as it relies on a closed source app that develops a probably dead in a few years company.

It is open source. The code is here https://github.com/standardnotes

Plus you can even self-host and the mobile apps support this out of the box.

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

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Post by qbasic_forever »

grillermo wrote: post #11

It is not safe(long term wise) for me as long as it relies on a closed source app that develops a probably dead in a few years company.

In addition to it being open source as mentioned, the server is open source too and you can run your own self-hosted instance: https://standardnotes.org/help/47/can-i-self-host-standard-n...

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

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Post by Trasmatta »

mandelbrotwurst wrote: post #10

> Find out what it feels like to write with total privacy. This made me laugh. You mean like on a piece of paper?

A piece of paper doesn't have the same level of privacy as something like Standard Notes. Anyone who finds your written paper notes can read them.

Standard Notes is encrypted, and password protected. It can't ever be read by the provider or the host (which is the major problem with the majority of syncing notes apps), and it can't be read by a nosy friend or family member, unless you leave your computer unlocked and unattended (at which point all bets are off anyway).

It offers much, much better privacy than a piece of paper.

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

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Post by eclipxe »

rvieira wrote: post #3

I've been enjoying using Noteplan and Obsidian. The main reason is actually data freedom. By having all the data as plain text I can sync it and backup as I like, move between platforms (macOS, Linux) and if I get bored with those apps or they disappear I switch easily or even write my own.

Love Noteplan!

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

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Post by Trasmatta »

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

As a second data point, I've been using Standard for a little over a year now, and haven't had any syncing issues. Maybe I've been lucky, or maybe it's gotten better than it used to be.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

Trasmatta wrote: post #26
mandelbrotwurst wrote: post #10

> Find out what it feels like to write with total privacy. This made me laugh. You mean like on a piece of paper?

A piece of paper doesn't have the same level of privacy as something like Standard Notes. Anyone who finds your written paper notes can read them. Standard Notes is encrypted, and password protected. It can't ever be read by the provider or the host (which is the major problem with the majority of syncing notes apps), and it can't be read by a nosy friend or family member, unless you leave your computer unlocked and…

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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 neolog »

Trasmatta wrote: post #26
mandelbrotwurst wrote: post #10

> Find out what it feels like to write with total privacy. This made me laugh. You mean like on a piece of paper?

A piece of paper doesn't have the same level of privacy as something like Standard Notes. Anyone who finds your written paper notes can read them. Standard Notes is encrypted, and password protected. It can't ever be read by the provider or the host (which is the major problem with the majority of syncing notes apps), and it can't be read by a nosy friend or family member, unless you leave your computer unlocked and…

They can be read by another program on your computer too.
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