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tried it left because of price, lack of options, lack of reliable sync https://joplinapp.org/ is far better and cheaper option
https://gitlab.com/stavros/notes/
It's a bit ad-hoc, but it works well.
> 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…
You can't say that about any software or hardware.
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How do you know I'm not burning the notes afterward?
I mean, if you never want to read your notes again, sure, that's more secure. But writing stuff you will immediately burn and never want to read again in the future is such a different thing from using a syncing notes tool that the comparison doesn't really make sense.
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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…
I am 100% sure there is no root kit installed on my piece of paper transmitting every pen stroke to the internet. I am 100% sure there is no defect in the design of the piece of paper that could make it instantly readable to the entire world once discovered. You can't say that about any software or hardware.
Sure, this same thing could be argued about electronic mail, computers and other encrypted devices but I feel something deeper would be lost a lot more often.
Imagine Kafka used an encryption tool on his work or countless of other silent authors whose work only came to life after their death when somebody else discovered it.
There're one or two minor issues (not being able to search within individual notes, and some scrolling bugs on iOS iirc that I need to report at some point), but given that I'm using it across 4 platforms (iOS/macOS/Windows/Android), it seems to be working really well.
And the lead developer seems quite sincerely committed/principled to the software's principles, which is nice.
edit: I haven't tried out Joplin/Obsidian, which people seem to like here. Oh gosh I think I'm ok for now - my current solution solves my problem.
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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…
I am 100% sure there is no root kit installed on my piece of paper transmitting every pen stroke to the internet. I am 100% sure there is no defect in the design of the piece of paper that could make it instantly readable to the entire world once discovered. You can't say that about any software or hardware.
With an encrypted hard drive and a strong key, the files remain private even when the physical security is breached.
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I am 100% sure there is no root kit installed on my piece of paper transmitting every pen stroke to the internet. I am 100% sure there is no defect in the design of the piece of paper that could make it instantly readable to the entire world once discovered. You can't say that about any software or hardware.
Private journaling is likely to end up encrypted forever and not accessible to the families of deceased persons. Sure, it could be argued that it was encrypted on purpose but one never knows. Someone may suddenly pass and their loved ones would never get access to this piece of their work even if the author intended to share it and never got to leave the encryption key (they never expected their sudden departure) Sur…
Food for thought though, for sure.
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.
what's the point of "end-to-end encrypted" if the keys are still on the server?
I see here - https://standardnotes.org/knowledge/2/what-is-end-to-end-enc... the claim is: "Whenever we move your encrypted data over a network, in order to deliver services to you, it is sent over a strictly secure connection to only our private servers. Because this data is encrypted, we can't read it, and we can’t sell it."
(I use Standard Notes, and if there's some element of the security model that I'm misunderstanding, I'd like to know :) )