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It's Time to Ditch Evernote for One of These Alternatives (lifehacker.com)

submitted 10 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 13 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Standard Notes is fantastic, assuming that:

you don’t need to collaborate in real-time with your notes (you can share them after the fact and there is a way to give multiple accounts edit access to the same note, but it looked complicated and I haven’t explored it)
you primarily use a keyboard - mobile counts, even if you’re using speech to text or Scribble on iPad - rather than wanting a canvas to draw on.
you’re not trying to upload documents and annotate them

StandardNotes has the following going for it:

it’s FOSS
it’s easily self-hostable
it’s also offered as SaaS, and if you use that your notes are e2ee
if you self-host you can still use the official mobile apps (but those are open source, too)
it has a web app, mobile apps, desktop apps on Windows, Mac, and Linux
there is a variety of editor plugins created by the community that can be used even if you use the free SaaS offering - check out https://github.com/jonhadfield/awesome-standard-notes for a list.

I’ve been using StandardNotes for a few years at this point (as a paid user on their 5 year plan, which no longer exists as far as I know) and have also developed an editor plugin for it.

[–] Dhrystone@infosec.pub 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

StandardNotes (I compared it to SimpleNote when I tested it months ago):

Doesn't support markdown without $ - simplenote does
Doesn't support checkboxes without $ - simplenote does
Doesn't even allow rich text without paying
$119/year subscription
Simplenote syncs faster

It calls itself FOSS but really, most of the important functionality is paid-only.

[–] YarrMatey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have to agree. I considered Standard Notes but I would have to pay for super notes in order to use images, even if I self-host. Same for code blocks, organizing notes into folders, spreadsheets, web clipper. Have to get the most expensive plan for offline access and being able to have local backups, although it is discounted if you self-host completely but why still pay a sub at that point? I would rather pay once and then be able to self-host using their super notes without paying more every month.

I liked Obsidian but wanted encryption that works on my android so I went with Joplin.

[–] Dhrystone@infosec.pub 1 points 10 months ago

Obsidian does offer end to end encryption as well, but you need to pay for their Sync offering. They have a good deal on it right now but I don’t need encryption so I just use the basic icloud functionality which works pretty well on iPhone, iPad and Windows. https://help.obsidian.md/Obsidian+Sync/Security+and+privacy

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