Standard Notes VS git-notes

Compare Standard Notes vs git-notes and see what are their differences.

Standard Notes

An end-to-end encrypted notes app for digitalists and professionals. https://standardnotes.com [Moved to: https://github.com/standardnotes/app] (by standardnotes)

git-notes

Sync your personal notes through Git automatically (by tanin47)
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Standard Notes git-notes
31 4
3,318 59
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9.8 0.0
almost 2 years ago over 1 year ago
TypeScript Go
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 MIT License
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Standard Notes

Posts with mentions or reviews of Standard Notes. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-25.

git-notes

Posts with mentions or reviews of git-notes. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-02.
  • I don’t want to build websites in react for my whole career. Not sure where to learn other things.
    5 projects | /r/cscareerquestions | 2 Jul 2023
    Project 2: A golang app. 55 stars.
  • My Productivity System in 2022
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Sep 2022
    My working memory file is just a giant txt file that is synced using git to github. It's free and fast (because a text file editor like Sublime is fast).

    I used Dropbox Paper and Google Docs before. Once you reach certain size, it is very very slow.

    The caveat with the text file is the lack of fuzzy searching capability... but it's tolerable so far.

    PS. I've built my own git sync: https://github.com/tanin47/git-notes -- it is written in Go. I've chosen Go because it can be deployed on windows, linux, and mac. Could have gone with Rust, but I don't really need speed here, so I don't need to manage my own memory.

  • Note Taking in 2021
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jun 2021
    Time for me to shine!

    I use 2 giant plain-text files.

    One for notes. The other for to-dos.

    I use git to sync to a private git repo using my own app https://github.com/tanin47/git-notes (work with Mac, windows, Linux)

    My priority is that I want my notes to live forever. Using GitHub seems to achieve that purpose. (I use many notes app before which I threw away when moving to a new app)

  • Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Apr 2021
    Shameless plug. I wrote a go app that keeps syncing your notes to GitHub/gitlab.

    I simply maintain a giant plain text note. Sometimes I hope there is a better way to search, but it's decent enough.

    https://github.com/tanin47/git-notes

    It runs on Mac, windows, and Ubuntu

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Standard Notes and git-notes you can also consider the following projects:

notesnook - A fully open source & end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote.

Joplin - Joplin - the secure note taking and to-do app with synchronisation capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.

xournalpp - Xournal++ is a handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support. Written in C++ with GTK3, supporting Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, SUSE), macOS and Windows 10. Supports pen input from devices such as Wacom Tablets.

Laverna - Laverna is a JavaScript note taking application with Markdown editor and encryption support. Consider it like open source alternative to Evernote.

nb - CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + more, in a single portable script.

Leanote - Not Just A Notepad! (golang + mongodb) http://leanote.org

deft - Deft for Emacs

HackMD - CodiMD - Realtime collaborative markdown notes on all platforms.

organice - An implementation of Org mode without the dependency of Emacs - built for mobile and desktop browsers

CherryTree - cherrytree

sublime_zk - A SublimeText3 package featuring ID based wiki style links, and #tags, intended for zettelkasten method users. Loaded with tons of features like inline image display, sophisticated tag search, note transclusion features, support for note templates, bibliography support, support for multiple panes, etc. to make working in your Zettelkasten a joy :smile:.