
The UI is a bit funky, it does not look like a native app, but it’s totally usable.
NOTATIONAL VELOCITY WINDOWS CODE
The Windows desktop app is Electron and looks to share code with the web interface. Notes are tagged in that way it’s a little like Notational Velocity / nvAlt. (Also you can never recover your notes if you lose your password.) It’s free and open sourceish, looks like they have a Freemium business model where you pay for extra features like fancier editors with formatting, reskinning the UI, etc. It looks to be very similar to SimpleNote in concept, but it has end-to-end encryption built in, so it’s more secure. Not permanently, but with undo it’s not clear you can ever really delete anything.Įnter Standard Notes. In particular I often temporarily save a password or SSH key to them. And oddly, my notes turn out to have some pretty secure content in them. That’s probably OK but if they ever have a security breach we’re in trouble. They store your notes in plaintext on their servers. The problem is SimpleNote isn’t built for much security. Type some text at it and it remembers, you can access it with a nice desktop app or a nice mobile app or any website. It’s a great simple cloud-synced notepad and a very nice free service Automattic maintains. I’ve been using SimpleNote for a long time.
