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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 wjntzf » Sun, Apr 18, 2021, 10:55 PM UTC

I guess it all comes down to building a secure cross-platform note taking app is had. Building a business around it (in the abstract sense of putting food on the table) is even harder. And then factor in the low switching cost & endless competition...

So I accept the imperfection of SN, and use other tools for specific use cases

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

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Post by seestraw » Mon, Apr 19, 2021, 5:56 AM UTC

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…

Almost all the features you mentioned are related to UI. Personally, I'd rather have something that prioritizes no account recovery over too much UI magic. As long as they make it easy to move my data around (import/export), I'm not too worried.

But yes, it would be nice to have a better rich text editor.

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

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Post by sldksk » Mon, Apr 26, 2021, 4:34 PM UTC

greenie_beans wrote: post #246

sldksk wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For Joplin, review the sync settings. Sorry I forget which one it is but on iOS there was a bad default and once you change it the mobile app works like a dream.

Sync settings in the iOS or on the desktop app?

iOS app!

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

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Post by ExtraE » Wed, Apr 28, 2021, 2:21 PM UTC

sealeck wrote: post #165

ExtraE wrote: post #91

Why 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?

I guess I trust Apple not to leak/read my notes more than this guy.