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.
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
#92Feedback: Every platform option takes you to a page with the same text:
> Your download has started. Didn't start? Click here to start manually.
Both for Android and Web, your download will NOT start until you click the link, which takes you to Google Play and the web app, respectively.
Re: Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work
#93Vim + potwiki. command mode -> space-w-w to my index, and notes away.
Re: Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's mostly hearsay. Electron is highly optimized (it's chromium after all). Making an electron app doesn't make it automatically slow and clunky. That's absurd. Sure it is a browser and it takes a little more Ram than you are used to (but most machines nowadays have 8 to 16 gigs of RAM so not a huge issue). What does make an electron app slow is the app itself. Obviously. You have VSCode that is blazing fast even fo…
> I see people down voting without any reason. What makes you think they didn't have a reason? I didn't downvote you but you've made a few divisive assertions. For example, your "blazing fast" is my "performs acceptably".
A typo. I meant "without giving any reason".
Also, I'd be interested to know what you count as blazing fast.
Re: Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work
#95I 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 I really miss it but it was no longer maintained and falling into disrepair on newer OSes due to lacking support for DPI scaling and dark modes.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…
Onenote is not end to end encrypted. Total nonstarter.
Re: Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
I myself thought no account recovery automatically meant safety. It sounds very cool. However, in the past week alone, around 10 users of Notesnook came asking for a way to recover their account because they had forgotten their password. I mean, why should privacy be at such a huge risk to users' data? For the tech savy, Notesnook offers account recovery by giving the user option (actual kind of forcing) to save the…
So they download the encryption key (unprotected so no password needed) as a file, and they keep the file safe? That's the kind of thing I've been thinking about for an idea of mine. What did those 10 users ask about? How to use the encryption key file?
No, what the recovery key actually was because it asked for it in the recovery UI.
Re: Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work
#97I 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
Re: Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work
#98I have a love/hate relationship with Standard Notes (and with most encrypted editors in general). Standard Notes is one of the few apps that has end-to-end encrytion AND password protection on the desktop (or Face ID on mobile devices). Joplin is E2E but refuses to encrypt locally, meaning someone who browses your computer can view your notes unless you use Joplin Portable in an encrypted container (with the added pe…
You should give Notesnook[1](i am the developer) a try as well. It should solve most, if not all, of the above issues and its cheaper than every other notes app out there as well. [1] https://app.notesnook.com/ (it has a 14 day free trial)
I really wish there was an alt without a subscription model. What happens to note access when off subscription?
is dark mode an option on the free tier?
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
You should give Notesnook[1](i am the developer) a try as well. It should solve most, if not all, of the above issues and its cheaper than every other notes app out there as well. [1] https://app.notesnook.com/ (it has a 14 day free trial)
I really wish there was an alt without a subscription model. What happens to note access when off subscription? is dark mode an option on the free tier?
> What happens to note access when off subscription?
Nothing at all. You can still edit and access them as normal. There's no limit on the amount of notes you can make on the free tier.
> is dark mode an option on the free tier? Yep.
As for the subscription model, it's necessary to support development of a Web & mobile app where versioning is much harder as opposed to a desktop version.
Re: Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work
#100I 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…
> I really miss tomboy (not the new ng version). I used it for years and it was amazing. ... 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.
You could contribute to it, and try to bring the project back to life!!! (I mean, any/most of us here on HN could!)
Tomboy is free and open-source software, licensed under the LGPL license[1]. It's also written in C# (which is pretty wonderful language to work with on a GUI application, especially compared to C or C++ or even maybe Vala).
It would be wonderful to breathe a new life to it.