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

submitted 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 2 points 11 months ago (1 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 1 points 11 months ago

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.