If the owner of the standard notes will now be a proton, doesn’t that contradict this principle? I have a proton email account but I don’t want it linked to my standard notes account. I don’t strongly trust companies that offer packaged services like google or Microsoft. I prefer to have one service from one company. I am afraid that now I will have to change where I save my notes. What do you guys think about this?
If the owner of the standard notes will now be a proton, doesn’t that contradict this principle?
There’s no principle… Standard Notes was never about having an open solution or going against the big co. it was about creating something that could be monetized.
Let’s see what Proton does with this, but I personally believe they’ll just integrate it in Proton and further close things even more. The current subscription-based model, docker container and whatnot might disappear as well. Proton is a greedy company that doesn’t like interoperability and likes to add features designed in a way to keep people locked their Web UI and applications.
Standard Notes for self-hosting was already mostly dead due to the obnoxious subscription price, but it is a well designed App with good cross-platform support and I just wish the Joplin guy would take a clue on how to design UIs from them instead of whatever they’re doing now that is ugly and barely usable.
Proton is a greedy company that doesn’t like interoperability and likes to add features designed in a way to keep people locked their Web UI and applications.
That’s nonsense. Proton has built everything around PGP and allows uploading public keys for users not using Proton Mail so that you can messaging them with Proton’s PGP system automatically.
https://proton.me/blog/openpgp-crypto-refresh
There’s 0 vendor lock in (in the entire Proton ecosystem) and there’s tons of open sourced code.
There’s 0 vendor lock in (in the entire Proton ecosystem)
What definition are you using for lock-in? Because I’m pretty sure the Proton ecosystem qualifies to some degree.
Q: Can I get the information I put into Proton back out and move to another service without paying Proton any money or extreme hardship?
A: Yes.
There’s no vendor lock in until you realize your emails are essentially hostage of their apps and a bridge that may be shutdown at any point. If you can’t simply setup a regular email client then there’s vendor lock in, not even Microsoft does that.
By that argument Microsoft could just shut down their IMAP servers tomorrow.
The fact of the matter is, Proton does currently provide tools to get your emails out of their ecosystem, that you can use today. Including a free tool (https://proton.me/support/proton-mail-export-tool) that creates EML files that can be imported elsewhere via Thunderbird.
Yes, but you can reliable use their service with a generic email client, specially on iOS for instance. The bridge doesn’t even provide everything a IMAP server does and there’s isn’t a way to get get calendars and contacts.
That bridge and the fact they don’t use generic IMAP/SMTP/CardDav/CalDav is a form of vendor lock-in. Other providers are also capable of encrypting email with PGP on a open manner and still use those generic protocols.
Other providers will return garbage to your mail client. The mail client itself must have PGP capability (plenty don’t).
The bridge doesn’t even provide everything a IMAP server does
I’ve yet to find any functionality missing from the bridge’s IMAP server that’s missing from any other IMAP server.
and there’s isn’t a way to get get calendars and contacts.
- https://proton.me/support/protoncalendar-calendars – see “Export a calendar” no page anchor for this one
- https://proton.me/support/proton-contacts#export-contacts
There’s not currently a real time way to get that data, but it’s hardly “vendor lockin.”
specially on iOS for instance
There’s something ironic to me about chewing Proton out for alleged vendor lock in while using iOS / Apple products.
I’ve been self-hosting Standard Notes for a while, and if you think it’s something you can pull off, I’d recommend it. Especially if you can get by without folders, (too many) fancy editors, or some of the extra cloud stuff they have been offering.
If you don’t feel like self-hosting, there are other options too, like
- The non-self-hostable but E2EE-encrypted and open-source Notesnook
- The closed source but extensible Obsidian, which doesn’t seem very interested in locking you into any tying
- The somewhat clunky but powerful and open-source Joplin
I’ve been self-hosting Standard Notes for a while, and if you think it’s something you can pull off, I’d recommend it.
Too bad it requires 2GB of RAM. Joplin is “perfect” but the UI is ugly.
Maybe Logseq, too.
+FOSS like Joplin and unlike Obsidian +plaintext markdown files like Obsidian and unlike Joplin’s janky database -less feature-rich than obsidian -blovk-bas3d instead of note-based, so a slight paradigm-shift is required
You can add two spaces at the end of every line to manually trigger
a line breakIs there a problem with your Lemmy client? My comment renders fine on Raccoon.
Maybe, but I’m pretty sure “end a line in two spaces to ensure a line break is inserted” is standard Markdown. I can see the source fine but not the formatted comment.
Eternity doesn’t render that fine and neither do any of the websites and frontends I’ve tried. It’s likely Raccoon in specific renders this as you intended, but it is in the markdown spec — that Lemmy mostly follows — that “strictly” two line breaks are needed to render one line break in HTML.
It isn’t very “what you see is what you get”…
I regret I’m probably never escaping Obsidian. For a closed-source piece of software it has such a beautiful ecosystem of themes and plugins. I love to use it for writing my blog articles, and the mostly strict adherence to the markdown spec, the HTML rendering and plugins that add support for Pandoc (and Zotero)…
But by default I can’t seem to get Logseq in that space, even if I really want to, where I only organise files based on metadata and folders.
I know these apps but none of them is as good as standard notes in my opinion. Notesnook seems fine but I don’t like fact that it is based in Pakistan. I used Joplin before buying a sub for standard notes so I know it.
Currently I have also subscription on Crypt.ee for photos but there is also a notes app integrated. Maybe I’ll start using it. Developer of cryptee was very active on reddit and he seems like a man who values privacy and security.
But I hope that simply proton will not force the migration of standard notes accounts to proton accounts and for old users everything will be as before.
Is there anything won’t with the company itself being in Pakistan, if it’s explicitly hosting your data in Germany? I’m not aware of any nation-level threat going on over there, and their client is open-source on all platforms, so I don’t imagine there’s much that would be compromised.
Idk, maybe I’m wrong. Notesnook is recommended by privacyguides at all. All my mistrust comes from the fact that such countries are not famous for respecting human rights. What if the government forces the owners to give up the keys? Maybe it’s an unrealistic scenario cause data is encrypted.
You’re asking the right questions.
Regarding keys: they never store those. If they did, that would be a problem from the beginning. The whole point of E2EE encryption is that the servers and server owners should never be able to access your data even if you wanted them to.
Yes, you had me cause I write only about keys, but I thought also about backdoors on gov demand.
If you’re worried about backdoors, you can build every client from source and verify the code. IIRC they haven’t paid for an audit, but if they failed to protect your passwords/keys that’d be really bad for their reputation. And considering their target demographic, it’s pretty important to keep that part of the reputation alive.
If they treat it the way they do with Simplelogin, then you can choose to keep your accounts separate. Just the option to log in via your Proton account will be a future option if they end up including standard notes as a premium feature.
Syncthing + your text editor (orgzly revived is great)
I’ve been using orgzly for years and this is the first I’ve heard of revived. Looks promising.
And there is orgzly for linux or something?
You activated my trap card!
It’s entierly based on the excellent org-mode for Emacs.
A simple text editor does the job on PC, I use kate (kde) but perhaps a markdown editor might be better.
