Another good news
Another good news
Proton and the end-to-end encrypted note-taking app Standard Notes are joining forces. We’ve long been admirers and are excited to welcome Mo and his team.
This is disappointing as someone who does not want everything centralized under one company. I have tried to diversify the services I use, but this is the second one that Proton has acquired.
SimpleLogin development has essentially been stalled since they were acquired by Proton as resources were used to develop Pass instead. I have a feeling that Standard Notes will be treated similarly.
39I started using SimpleLogin just before the acquisition so wasn't aware of how active development was prior to Proton. That said I don't believe they have added anything new in that time (a year now)?
8The webclient is as buggy as always for me
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this is a good point, but thankfully there are many options whether you want a full suite, or individual companies
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Sweet. Let's hope that Standard Notes subscription is included in Proton 😁
32In the coming months, we hope to find ways to make Standard Notes more easily accessible to the Proton community. This way, in addition to protecting your email, calendar, files, passwords, and online activity, you can also protect your notes.
This is all the info we get
5Yeah, I've been slowly moving towards using proton, testing it with the free account and I'm on the verge of getting the subscription. The addition of the notes app would make it so much better, I'd pay it right away.
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I've been decreasingly enthused about Standard Notes since I started self hosting it.
- First, it was a little weird that the biggest draw of their premium subscription was not their cloud but extensions, which were mostly made by third parties and needed only a static site to host. But I could host my own extensions so this was no big deal.
- Then they made it harder to host and install your own extensions, making you have to select them one at a time instead of pointing to a single place.
- Then they started moving functionality like folders into extensions.
- More recently, a bug appeared where the logged in account would start trying to sync with the default instance instead of the one you initially entered, on both desktop and mobile apps.
- And possibly the last straw for me, they discontinued synching self-hosted instances on their web app, without warning.
And I haven't been particularly thrilled with the idea of putting all my privacy needs under a single banner either. Email isn't secure. You need to put a ton of trust in your VPN provider. I don't think either of those services should be provided by the same company...
ETA: When did Standard Notes add AI generated pictures to their homepage? They don't look good.
14First, it was a little weird that the biggest draw of their premium subscription was not their cloud but extensions, which were mostly made by third parties and needed only a static site to host. But I could host my own extensions so this was no big deal.
Yes.
Then they made it harder to host and install your own extensions, making you have to select them one at a time instead of pointing to a single place.
They really want you to pay for the product, ultimately they are a business. You self hosting without a subscription doesn't help them.
https://standardnotes.com/help/self-hosting/subscriptions https://standardnotes.com/help/48/can-i-use-extensions-with-a-self-hosted-server
Then they started moving functionality like folders into extensions.
As a long time user... I'm fairly confident that folders always were an extension? Of course folders used to be a layer upon tags and now they're just kinda the same thing.
... in any case it doesn't really sound like you were ever a customer and I don't think they're going to miss you much. Maybe this is still good information for other folks that don't want to pay them though.
And I haven't been particularly thrilled with the idea of putting all my privacy needs under a single banner either.
I do share that concern. Proton is increasingly the "big privacy tech" company. That's also not an inherently bad thing to have though as big companies do carry more weight in political discussions. They can help represent privacy in legislation (for better or worse companies are people for this purpose in the US).
Email isn't secure. You need to put a ton of trust in your VPN provider. I don't think either of those services should be provided by the same company...
Email can be (close to) secure with PGP, which Proton is just a fancy PGP client.
The VPN was created because they needed a VPN they could trust for their email customers in sketchy areas.
I think Proton grew out of necessity then because they realized both that they could and it's useful for them to grow.
6I understand the need for Standard Notes to make money, but I believe that offering the convenience and security of hosting is a good way to do this, not by selling subscriptions for self-hosted users to access extensions that are mostly wrappers for someone else's work. Especially the editors:
- Standard Notes shouldn't sell a subscription for me to use a thin wrapper for someone else's markdown editor on something I host on my own server.
- Or a wrapper for someone else's WYSIWYG HTML editor project that hasn't been updated since 2021.
- Or a wrapper for someone else's spreadsheet app.
(This is also probably why so many Standard Notes editors look out of place next to each other; they were made by totally different people at different times.)
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they make you pay for the app even if you self host, even though it's open source, it's stupid
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I feel like I am slowly moving all my data being with Google to Proton. Makes me a bit uncomfortable to be all under one umbrella again.
At least so far it seems they are a decent company
9In the same boat, but what puts me at ease is the fact that when Proton Pass launched, they had way more people sign up, including paid plans, than they expected, so they lowered the price.
3When they lowered their price I signed up. Not because it was cheaper but because they didn’t seem like a money driven company. I understand you need to make money and pay people but these tech companies that make hand over fist billions and keep it annoy me.
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Why would you name your post like that???
8This could potentially speed up the possibility of a Google Doc alternative in Proton Drive's future too 👀 I see exciting possibilities here
6Guess they'll just aquire Cryptpad next
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I kinda want them to buy kagi next. I'd even pay for visionary or whatever they call it
6The plan you mentioned is sadly no longer available
Proton Visionary is a special plan for the strongest early supporters of our mission, and for this reason, we’re no longer offering it to new users. You can change your billing period any time (for example, change from monthly to annual or two-year billing), but please bear in mind that if you switch to another Proton plan, you won’t be able to switch back to Visionary.
https://protonvpn.com/support/upgrading-to-new-protonvpn-plan/
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Damn. I'm a little ways invested in Obsidian. Can I open Obsidian files in Standard Notes?
4Obsidian just uses local markdown files, so probably
11It looks like it won't work unless I have premium. Markdown in particular is only on the premium version. Ah well. We'll see if it gets included in Proton Unlimited. If so, I'll switch but if not, Obsidian already syncs on my home server so it works great.
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Hopefully they integrate it better than SimpleLogin into their suite.
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