Proton picks up Standard Notes to deepen its pro-privacy portfolio | TechCrunch
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By adding Standard Notes to its portfolio of apps, Proton will deepen its reach with an engaged community of pro-privacy users.

Proton said the Standard Notes app, which is available for both mobile and desktop, will remain “open source, freely available and fully supported”.

It also suggested that there will be no change to Standard Notes’ prices; its press release specifies that existing five-year subscriptions “will continue to be honored.”

“Standard Notes will remain an independent product and in due course both companies will open access to their products to each others’ users,” Proton added.

  • Spectranox@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    7 months ago

    So does this mean paying Proton Unlimited users will get access to StandardNotes too? I’d rather not have to dish out another subscription.

  • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
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    7 months ago

    That article was far more clear than their own. “Joining Forces” as they called it, could mean almost anything. But “Acquiring” Standard Notes to add to their services actually explains what’s happening.

    If it follows the SimpleLogin acquisition as they implied, it’ll still be a separately branded product that’s added to a Proton Ultimate subscription. So that’s cool.

  • Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 months ago

    A “privacy” company acquiring and centralizing various projects to be under its umbrella seems kind of worrisome to me even if it’s done with pure intentions.

    • jherazob@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Even from the “all your eggs in one basket” kind of perspective it does feel worrisome, not to mention that i am unsure about this dilution of their focus on many apps being helpful, I’d rather have them focus on very few but rock solid and maintained services instead of going with the Google “we do everything” way to do things

    • drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I find that fair, but at the same time, proton has a rocksolid history at this point. OFC they will likely add their features to it, and maybe remove some. But im the end its still open source and under gpl licence, so its not like proton cam change that unless they remove all other commits.

  • Midnitte@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Had not heard of this software, interesting…

    Will need to see how it compares to Notion for class notes

    • TemporalSoup@beehaw.org
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      7 months ago

      I used standard notes a little while ago, it seemed like a nice phone note app replacement with a decent number of markdown based plugins
      I don’t think it’s trying to be a Notion or an Obsidian