A plain text note-taking system for problem solving

Re:A plain text note-taking system for problem solving by noduerme on Saturday August 07, 2021 @11:36PM (#28104020)

Very cool. I use plaintext lists for virtually everything. But generally, they're on my phone. I use Safe Notes, which allows you to encrypt individual notes. I wouldn't want to keep them in the cloud, and I use DDG browser so I'm not keeping a lot of local storage hanging around.

I would absolutely purchase this if it were packaged as an Android app.

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Re:A plain text note-taking system for problem solving by danallison on Sunday August 08, 2021 @12:07AM (#28104127)

Noted. A standalone mobile app is low on the dev priorities list right now, but hopefully we'll get to it someday.

Also, the desktop app (which will be available within the next few days) is 100% local, no internet connection necessary, and 100% private.

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Re:A plain text note-taking system for problem solving by jbay808 on Sunday August 08, 2021 @01:41AM (#28104462)

FWIW I've had multiple data loss issues with Safe Notes. Sometimes one notepad would spontaneously get overwritten by another. I've switched to Simple Notepad since then.

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Re:A plain text note-taking system for problem solving by noduerme on Sunday August 08, 2021 @01:44AM (#28104475)

Eek.. I've been using it for a couple years and haven't run into that, but good to know!

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Re:A plain text note-taking system for problem solving by koheripbal on Sunday August 08, 2021 @05:22PM (#28110228)

I use WinSCP to maintain an encrypted remote directory of markdown files for notes and projects.

It's nice to let separate programs do the encryption/storage vs the editing.

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Re:A plain text note-taking system for problem solving by noduerme on Monday August 09, 2021 @11:05PM (#28124782)

I use (paid) Arq on the desktop for similar purposes, sending encrypted backups to a server I control. I don't know of a similar Android solution for self-hosted incremental backups.

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