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Standard Notes is not a replacement word processor, unless you’re exclusively using Google Docs for notes.

It’s also already freemium, and the free tier includes E2EE syncing.

Obsidian is fantastic. I use it for work and also for personal stuff like planning TTRPG sessions. Especially with the plugins that are out there, it’s super powerful. Getting into using metadata tags and the Dataview plugin it becomes a pretty amazing knowledge engine.

I’ve found it to be okay. The plugin system is nice, but the lack of local file sync on iOS is quite bothersome, since I use a self-hosted sync instead.

It basically makes the iOS app unusable for me, and it would be a deal breaker if Obsidian didn’t just use markdown documents you can edit with a text editor.

Admittedly, I migrated from Apple Notes and raw text documents, so there isn’t much by way of competition.

I have tried a bit of the others, like abusing LaTeX for it, which worked okay, but had a few flaws, like when linking other files, and Trillium, which is interesting, but also uses an SQL database (without mobile support, which didn’t work for me).

Turtl was interesting, but when I used it, very beta.

Evernote was okay, but also suffers from the proprietary format. I dropped them after they reduced the device support down to 2/3, so no idea what it’s like now.

Onenote was nice with the pen support (only Apple and Samsung notes otherwise have that, as far as I’m aware), but I found it to be quite heavy, and a little unwieldy (in addition to being proprietary).

Onenote also has a strange quirk where it will gradually accumulate copies, so big notes will cause it to grow over time until it starts eating up huge amounts of space on your computer.

Personally I’ve been using Anytype. The free version includes I think 2GB of sync storage, which is pretty generous for text notes.

Using it is kinda clunky and unintuitive on a touch screen. Theres a notable lack of touch feedback that makes it weird and imprecise to use. Like pressing and holding on a folder or file doesn’t have any visual indicator that you’re pressing on the correct line, so you have to wait and see what opens. Maybe on a bigger phone this is less of an issue but in my iPhone 15 pro it’s been kind of annoying. Also after like a year or two with the app there’s something about the navigation I don’t like. It just doesn’t follow the usual conventions of what you’d expect from a mobile app.

It feels a lot like how using the desktop version version of a website in a mobile browser does.

I’ve used it for years. What’s not robust?

I found Standard Notes rather rudimentary compared to Joplin, Obsidian, Logseq and Trilium. I settled on Joplin but the others are fine. Trilium is kinda neat since you can put automations in your notes that act on other notes.

I know it’s against what Lemmy wants, but this is what you actually need for a privacy focused service to become mainstream.

Normal people don’t spend all day looking for and setting up miscellaneous FOSS products to do what they need.

They want to pax $X per month to have it all in one place and easy to use.

What do you mean a “single point of failure?”. It’s just becoming an office suite, same as Microsoft or Google. Thats a good thing, it means there will be a user friendly and intuitive privacy respecting alternative to the big tech alternatives.

The only thing I would reasonably worry about is scope creep that comes with managing too many apps at once, but the fact that Proton is just acquiring these tertiary services seems like their strategy for avoiding that problem.

As long as their primary product, the email, remains a focus I’m all for it.

Seeing this statement makes me wonder - would Proton’s ecosystem be considered a juicier target for data, with thinking along the lines of “people adopt proton to have more privacy. Are they more likely to transmit more sensitive data because they think it’s more private?”

Oy vey stop noticing things