![]() Backups of your notes are now automatic on the desktop app, and you would be able to decrypt your notes with an offline tool. Well, the developer thought about that from the get-go, as there are multiple contingency plans that would allow you to access your notes, even if the company goes poof without warning. Pricing for the Extended version is a tad on the expensive side of things at USD 44 per year or USD 199 for 5 years.Ĭonsidering that this is a one-man-company, you have every right to wonder what would happen in the unfortunate and unlikely event a bus hits the developer. Standard Notes, unlike Evernotes, Google Keep or SimpleNotes makes use of end-to-end encryption: your content is encrypted before it leaves the safety of your device. But fret not! The mere fact that your notes are being hosted in the USA doesn't imply that they can be accessed by three-letter agencies and the like. Standard Notes uses the AWS infrastructure - Amazon's pricy cloud geared for enterprises. On the contrary, the Notes History extension allows you to restore a previous state of a note server-side, modified from any device.īut about server-side, let's talk about servers and location: where exactly is Standard Notes hosted? Indeed, in the base free version, you are limited to the local session history which records the modifications you do on your local instance of Standard Notes, on a particular device. However, the Extended version does not only add cosmetic niceties: you can activate server-side addons such as the automatic daily encrypted backup of your notes sent by email or to your Dropbox/Google Drive/ OneDrive account with the extension called CloudLink.Īnother useful extension is the server-side Notes History. If grey is your fancy, you'll be happy to know there's a Titanium theme. There is a variety of dark themes to ease your eyes at night, including Futura, Solarized Dark and Midnight. As its name implies, rather than enhancing what is already there in the free core version of Standard Notes, the paid version adds features, such as Markdown or rich-text editors and themes - add-ons which are synced across all your devices along with your notes and tags. Rather than adding features to the base software, the sole developer of Standard Notes chose to create a paid version simply named Extended. Just imagine the Windows notepad.exe, but with tags and encrypted sync for an unlimited number of devices. The core feature set is 100% free, but in its quest for minimalism, you could say it lacks some important features: there is just a plain text editor without any markup highlight. Its architecture is built upon a sync server where you create an account. Standard Notes is a hosted service with a web app, desktop Linux, Windows and macOS apps, and mobile apps for Android and iOS. ![]() Practically, this means that if a hosted service's servers are breached or compromised in any way - be it by employees, intelligence agencies or malicious entities - the secrets in your notes could be fair game. Most often, your private notes are left unencrypted on the servers of the company. They do sync across devices, and are protected by your Apple or Google accounts' passwords (and 2-factor authentication if you set it up).īut these services - just like SimpleNote, Microsoft OneNote and the venerable elephant of Evernote - only encrypt the transport of your notes between your device and the server. ![]() ![]() Why not use the built-in notepad: Apple Note or Google Keep? You probably have already been in a situation where you needed to jot down notes: from a short post-it scribbled in a jiffy, to a blog post or essay draft, or even a brilliant idea for your next novel.īut even though Moleskine notebooks still enjoy some popularity, most of us are now tempted to make use of the objects that follow us everywhere: our phones and laptops.
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