Standard Notes – A notes app with a focus on longevity, portability, and privacy
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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderExcellent effort! However, it also introduces a _major_ security hole: The Electron Desktop App simply loads an index.html which points at remote JavaScript. That's crazy dangerous - if that endpoint gets compromised, nothing keeps the attacker from running `rm -rf /` on every user's machine. I'm a member of the Electron maintainers group and fully realize that this is partly on us for not educating better. Remote code should never run with full privileges - consider using a `webview` instead…
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 not sure how having…
I’ve been a fan of this product for quite a while, I self host a “standard file” server and make use of standard notes writing into it to keep my personal journal. Getting everything up and running isn’t difficult at all.
I like the concept but question the business model. It is something with universal appeal but I fear the revenue from "extended" won't be sufficient to sustain it over time. The value add just doesn't justify the subscription price --- considering that I can achieve similar functionality on my own using Aescrypt and readily available "free" web storage. To make it more viable I would suggest extending the functionality. In particular, I would like to see an option for asymmetric…
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- Total comments
- 536
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-12-30 | Standard Notes: notes app with focus on longevity, portability, and privacy | ingve | 3 | 0 |
| 2017-01-17 | Standard Notes – A notes app with a focus on longevity, portability, and privacyFirst breakout · Best thread | mikecarlton | 673 | 282 |
| 2018-07-13 | Standard Notes – A Simple and Private Notes App | octosphere | 3 | 0 |
| 2018-08-13 | Standard Notes – A Simple and Private Notes App | ColinWright | 4 | 0 |
| 2019-03-15 | Standard Notes – A Simple and Private Notes App | jtrtoo | 2 | 0 |
| 2019-08-14 | Standard Notes | Brajeshwar | 3 | 0 |
| 2020-07-08 | Standard Notes – A Simple and Private Notes App | lowmemcpu | 14 | 5 |
| 2020-09-08 | Standard Notes | baal80spam | 4 | 0 |
| 2021-04-11 | A free, open-source, and completely encrypted notes app | agmm | 4 | 1 |
| 2021-04-16 | Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's workHall induction · Latest 20+ point return | sealeck | 286 | 248 |