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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 GekkePrutser »

qPM9l3XJrF wrote: post #97
GekkePrutser wrote: post #76

I 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 I really miss it but it was no longer maintained and falling into disrepair on newer OSes due to lacking support for DPI scaling and dark modes.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…

Seems Zim Wiki is still being actively maintained, I liked it better than Tomboy when I tried them both years ago

Thanks, that's one I will try!

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Post by tomjen3 »

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.

Having used it extensively, you can setup org-mode however you want: a file per month, a file per thought, a file per project and everything in between.

It is also the only note taking system I have seen that will let you link to an email. If you want to add a todo entry deep in some meeting notes reminding you to checkup on that email in 3 weeks, you can. And those todos will then show up in your agenda view.

Unfortunately this doesn't work if you don't already use Emacs as your email client, which I guess you don't if you aren't also using org-mode.

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Post by inakarmacoma »

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…

Also moved everything to Obsidian. The free plugins from developer contributors are fantastic. Sync to mobile is free with some know-how, otherwise the paid option seems fairly priced.

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Post by sealeck »

astaza123 wrote: post #193
sealeck wrote: post #166

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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

From what I understand they store it unencrypted on the web, but in the device's keychain when using the Desktop application.

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Post by sneak »

mattowen_uk wrote: post #173
sneak wrote: post #95

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Onenote is not end to end encrypted. Total nonstarter.

OneNote does allow you to password protect (which encrypts) sections within a notebook, however.

It's not open source, so there is no clear indication without RE that "password protection" encrypts anything at all.

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Post by jakear »

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.

Curious if you tried with extensions disabled? I just attempted opening both a 100k and 1m line html file in both VS Code and ST, in the 100k case they both were quick to open but Code was a bit smoother in scrolling, in the 1m case ST took a long time to open (showed a loading progress bar for a few seconds before anything), and while Code was choppy to scroll ST was almost unusable.

That being said, with extensions enabled it can be a totally different story - some extensions will try to load the text content on every editor opening or even edit, which gets unusable very quickly. (Yes they run in a separate process, but that’s not a cure-all)

Tested on 2018 MBP.

(On VS code team, had nothing to do with the editor perf)

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Post by e3bc54b2 »

thecodrr wrote: post #177
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,…

> its tied to Emacs "What's emacs?" that's what a your every day Joe is going to ask you. The very reason note apps/platforms exist is to simplify the on boarding process. Of course that's a two edged sword. You give normal users an easy way out but now pro users get frustrated because they can't use their favorite tool. I am sure org-mode is as good as you say though.

Yes, Emacs for average Joe is a non starter. Which is why I mentioned anyone serious about note taking. Most average joes are not really serious about maintaining, organizing and retrieving information. Anybody who is, OTOH, eventually builds up a monstrosity. Its like putting floors on a tent and one day waking up to Empire State. Now the very foundation that allowed quick start starts limiting your construction and daily use. Emacs is exact opposite of that. It is only useful if you are already aware of complex requirements of your note taking flow, and allows to mould itself to suit them.

One more factor hindering Emacs adaptability is its very unique nature. There nothing else like it out there, nobody encounters it before they explicitly start off on it with clear intent.

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Post by smichel17 »

julianlam wrote: post #89
smichel17 wrote: post #86

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It's okay, my browser prompts me before downloading a file, so it's far from "immediate".

In my experience, some browsers will start the download before you've given the go-ahead, so the download completes faster.

I'm aware that some browsers (ie, chrome & friends) do this, by default at least. I find it pretty hostile behavior. I don't think this site did anything wrong.

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Post by actinium226 »

thecodrr wrote: post #201
Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #197

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> 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…

> 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. Incorrect. Check Notesnook[1]. It solves both of those things. [1] https://notesnook.com/

How do they achieve it?

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Post by actinium226 »

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…

Obsidian looks cool, but there's no web version? One thing I really like about SN is that it's in the cloud.
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