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I will pay $100 a year for an iOS-like Notes replacement, de-Appled with these criteria:

1. Secure - E2E encrypted on cloud storage, vendor cannot read it

2. Accessible - standalone native app on desktop and mobile on all platforms (Linux, Windows, Mac/iOS, Android)

3. Simple - love how Apple doesn't even make you "title" notes, it just takes the first line

4. Shareable - with others with editing privs eg a grocery list for family

5. Paid - that way I know it's sustainable and not some data scam

6. Plain - Base version has no ability to publish to a blog or any junk like that.

7. Open source

I just subscribed to Standard Notes:https://standardnotes.com/

Standard Notes has #1, #2, #5, and#7. But UI is more cluttered than iOS. And not shareable with editing privs.

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Have you looked into Joplin?

I appreciate the suggestion. I checked it out at the same time as Standard Notes.

It seems to break the Simple + Plain criteria. For example on the main nav, pressing "+" prompts to either New Note or New To Do. And all the references to "notebooks". Too much for me.

That's fair.

The syncing is bit janky if you're careful. But having a self-hosted option is what attracted me.

I don't trust anyone with my data anymore.

Apparently you can self host Standard Notes --

From Standard Notes: Standard Notes is free and open-source software, which means self-hosting both ends (the app and server) is both totally possible and very easy." https://standardnotes.com/help/47/can-i-self-host-standard-n...

I just ignore the To Do feature, and have everything in one notebook. This makes it pretty similar to apple notes

Have you tried Standard Notes? Less stuff to ignore. Still not ideal but much cleaner.

And holler if you find something that is even better!

Joplin seems like a good SimpleNote alternative. And I'm really after the end-to-end encryption

Joplin supports E2EE.

You should look seriously at FSNotes, it’s got all your needs met I believe (have fun with standard notes- I found them very disappointing)

I have Joplin also, and yes it’s good, and it syncs well these days (not so in past I found) and there’s no good reason I have not be using it full time, but I’m not, something there niggles me in use, maybe it’s just a shade slower, hard to define, but moving from ios to OS X works great for me In FSNotes so I’ll probably be sticking with it for a while, I stuck on notational velocity for a long time and have only moved for the ability to add photos easily (improvement in Joplin only) and apply some security levels applicable on individual record levels

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