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Proton AG and Standard Notes joined forces (proton.me)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Unfortunately for now there are not usable for me.

The 100MB storage limit feels ridiculous. ProtonMail offers 500MB basic with 1GB free upgrade, and ProtonDrive starts at 2GB up to 5GB free. It’s unclear why Standard Notes storage isn’t shared like these other Proton products.
Basic formatting tools like bold and italics are absent on free plan. What makes it different from notes in Proton Pass?
Jurisdictional troubles. It is not Swiss as Proton or SimpleLogin P.S: Their app looks like PWA (progressive web application) not as standalone app.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

Standard Notes has an unfortunate business model. Instead of charging for the convenience and security of syncing your stuff on your behalf (which is the model of Obsidian, Joplin, and Bitwarden), it wants to sell you a Markdown compatible note editor that

They didn't write
They don't maintain
Can just sit on your phone/PC

This isn't just true for their markdown editor. Most of their editors are wrappers for code that other people made, sometimes last updated years ago.

Fun trivia: Filen, the E2EE cloud storage service, actually implemented "notes" that include the rich text ones free of charge.

Personally I'm not a huge fan of the "everything under one roof" model regardless... You might pass up perfectly good services that cost less or are even free.