Proton and Standard Notes are joining forces | Proton
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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.
  • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
    222·
    3 months ago

    I like Proton and it’s good for us as users that Proton are adding to their service offerings.

    But hiding what you’re doing behind corporate cute-speak like this is cringe. You’re not “joining forces”, you acquired them.

  • mynamesnotrick@lemmy.zipEnglish
    13·
    3 months ago

    I use proton and the one thing that I’ve wanted is a replacement for google docs, while this may only be a notes app I look forward to it being added to proton and may use it outside of just syncing to my proton drive.

    I recognize that the adoption of basically outsourced apps seems less desirable than in house proton apps. Will have to see if proton continues to move toward outsourcing further app solutions.

  • FurbyOnSteroids@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    First time hearing of this note taking app. How does it compare to obsidian? Is it comparable? I bought a license for obsidian a couple of days ago (using it for work stuff) and now I’m wondering if it’s smarter to use this as I already pay for Proton unlimited and I kinda expect this to (somehow) be included the same way they did with SimpleLogin.

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      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.

    • li10@feddit.ukEnglish
      561·
      3 months ago

      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.

    • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      3 months ago

      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.