Hello everyone, welcome back to the Keep Productive YouTube channel, it is Francesco here
So today we're doing a first impressions video as well as they review all Standard Notes
We're going to be diving into the application about how to use it how it sort of grown and expanded
And we'll also go to video ivan into a full demonstration of how to use it as well as pricing and information like that
I'm really excited because it's a good Evernote alternative. Although it does still have lots to learn
Anyway, guys, let's dive into Standard Notes today
Hello everyone and welcome back to another video
So we are reviewing standard notes today and I have it on Mac today now standard notes is available on Mac Windows Linux
Also iOS and Android and web which makes it a pretty accessible notetaking application
And if I'm brutally honest, I probably only discovered this application about two or three months ago
It's been on my radar because of all the people go. There's no resources about stand notes out there
How can we understand it? How can we know about it? And of course I wanted to do a feature on it naturally
So guys this video will demonstrate some of the features and functions of it as well as outlining some of the pricing information
that you need to know and also give you as much information as possible out of this application that has been
Provided know I was actually pretty impressed by the application
If I'm honest the branding the efforts that they've put into designing it as well as making it sort of this
community lead application really does
You know, it's very credible in it. It is giving me a good impression so far now the application is free
It does have a premium version which we'll be diving it into near at the end of this video
So if you're understanding if you're like I already understand stander notes. What why should I upgrade then?
Skip to the end this video. But again this application is open source
So it's it's really designed for people to sort of take it apart, too
So you can see here. This is the standard notes on Mac
I will be demoing on iOS and sort of sharing some of the differences
They look sort of similar on
This left-hand panel you have tags so you can create any tag so you like so any times you like?
thinking of some tags
Let's say shopping list or something. Just SuperDuper simple
And if I press ENTER it will create a well. Actually I create a new node
And you can obviously start going there
So actually you need to buy some minstrels because I just ate some minstrels from the fridge and don't tell my wife you
Can see here that it's created them on this left-hand panel
You have their notes list in the center
Which is searchable as well as the ability to create new notes there now if I want to
Delete an item. I would go to options delete here. And that's how you delete an item
So as you can imagine once you're inside of the notes
You can actually access options which we just did you have the ability to pin notes archive them actually lock them
which we'll be talking about the security side of stuff in a bit as well as delete them change the global font as well and
Give there's margin restrictions, which is helpful. Now the editor you're using the plane editor, which is the most simplest editor
There's a lot that you can unlock in pro which we'll be talking about here at the end actions
You can download actions to which is another extension which leads you to that sort of the premium again
I would say this application is free edit basic format. You could only pretty much just add notes as they are now
You've also got session history so you can see here that I've got eight revisions already and you can move back to them, too
And you can restore restore as copy which is quite a nice addition
So in case you'll go in there now here are some ones I created earlier some taken of notes on
lessons that I've been learning from make time and as you can see you can see the session history again has been
Adapted I wrote this one on iPhone seems to have transferred pretty well, and you can refresh down at the bottom
So that it syncs with all of that and the great thing is obviously you've got really dead simple notes
It's not really much more than that. You can do on the freemium version
But the good thing is the sort of thing that they shout most about is this encryption so it has end-to-end encryption
Which you can set as on so for example here you see six out of six notes aren't tanks and tags are encrypted enter encrypted
Encryption is enabled your data is encrypted before syncing to your private account
So you do have a private account you can and a password lock as well and you can download and import from backups, too
so again
it's quite a secure application as what it markets itself sat marketed it marks itself at
but does private empal experience now as you can see here everything syncs pretty well and
Everything has mainly unlocked and thing and that's why I will be doing a standard notes
extension or
Pro function they'll talk about again
What I want to do just to round this feature off is really talk about the premium experience
so you can see here that standard notes does have a premium version or what it's called as extended version it has
27 extensions and
Counting and it does unlock a lot of bonus experiences so you can see here that
Safeguarding your files. So for example, you can get unlimited file attachments encrypted, which is very helpful
So you can upload directly from Dropbox Google Drive or web DAV servers
Helpful, you can also get a whole host of multi editor productivity
So you cannot get rich text markdown HTML and tons more which we'll be talking about in a minute
You've got data care as well. So cloud backups daily
and you can even
do a backup of the all of your data to Dropbox Google Drive and onedrive
Infinite undo so you can undo and actually go to loads of revisions
So it looks like that was restricted in the initial edition the security so you got two-step authentication
Which is accessible there. So imagine this you've got your encrypted data. You've got your past passcode protection or lock
And you've got your 2-step authentication. So that's mad
no-one's going to be able to get
work through the night and you have the dark modes available, too and
In the freemium package in the standard package
They call you've got intended private encryption unlimited notes sync to all your devices unlimited devices and web and offline access
So you're really getting almost like simple notes for free just even cleaner and more profit privatized privatized
privatize
So you can see here that there's a different plans here
So you've got the one month?
Which is nine dollars 99 per month
Again, if you're paying for that and you understand what we're gonna be talking about in minutes can be you know
That's the full price and you know, that's there's 120 dollars a year
it's big investment double what Newton was and you've got five-year plan which $2 49 48 and that's a
$149 build every five years which is something that no VPN do as well and just to be aware of them
One-year plan is four dollars seventeen. So that's a total of
$50 per year, so they're really yeah pushing you to invest in that bigger price around here
So and they do stay a lot about the sustainability of the effort. So they're they're actually
Resources Rev revenues solely from the customer so far and don't have any advertisers or venture
Capitalists so they don't have that effort to raise. They do have a 30-day guarantee
On the extended package. So if you don't like it, you can return it now
These are some of the editors you get inside of the experience
This is for desktop web and mobile you get advanced markdown simple markdown plus editor fancy markdown editor
minimal editor code editor simple task editor and vim editor
I didn't know they matter to existed and you've also got components as well so you can have a
quick tags area so you can quickly access them and that supports keyboard shortcuts and folders an
action bar giving you an outline of
The useful utility how many words you typed in?
and being able to duplicate efforts to a github push folders as well for your
Tanks, so you can nest different things and folders your themes as well focused midnight Butera. Um,
Solarized dynamic and no distraction mode and you can try these all if you want to just by pressing the try it button
You also have data care file safe
Dropbox sync to Google Drive sync onedrive sync daily email backup - and two-step authentication of weathers note
History so you can restore from previous editions you also have
Actions so you can publish to your blog from standing it
So there is quite a lot of value in the experience
Now the thing that they sell themself as is mainly the privacy side of stuff they have end-to-end encryption
they have secure networks, and they do have a whole host of lists of were a list of things that they
Outline here. But again, they don't have any ads or
tracking technologies inside that they have respect for analytics, but the one thing I haven't seen on their blog is like
Sometimes companies have like a a privacy or Terms document for their users
Whereas this is more of a manifesto, they really should have that. I don't know. Maybe I'm completely missing it
Maybe it's in the FAQ page or something, but I can't spit it. I can't find it
Let me know in the comments if I missed it
But again, this is something that they need to or definitely consider the guys
I want to take you through the re West application and then we'll round off everything
So guys as you can imagine they have an iOS application as you can see in this left-hand side
It looks more like a calendar application, which is quite exciting
So when you open up your standard Notes account you are
Asked to open it with finger print, which is quite nice it syncs
Automatically as you seen it just sync the editions there that we made inside of
The likes of the Mac application and as you can see here
You've got notes you got search it's very simple as you can see. There's no text formatting
There's no option to text format. You can manage your document or a note unpin it lock it
Do what you want with it and you can get web editors too. So once you install them
It does make it more accessible. You can filter them with date added or it tanks
for example
if you wanted to and create new tags from there now you account is accessible here and
You can use the fingerprint sensor as well as it gives you all the information about encryption. It's
Aes-256 which I believe is Bank rates security
Encryption and also you've got your account keys. The one thing it does say is when you're creating your account
There's no forget password function
So if you forget your password, you have to recreate your account and that's something that you should be aware of
Again, this application is available on Andrew as well as web Linux Windows and Mac. So do try it out there
So guys just around things off with standard notes. I'm impressed by the application and impressed by the design of the application
The encryption level and also everything like that. What I would say is the feedback has been good so far
it's got a solid 4.7 on iOS that's 50 ratings and
there is a slant community which iMessage they seemed really friendly and there is a reddit community to which I'm sure I'll be
Interacting with I'll be doing an extended feature. So please do not take this as it is
Of course, there is a premium experience and this is very much a first impressions feature
But I will be expect extending my sort of feature on this. I'm very impressed by the cross-platform functionality of it
It's simple, but it really does work
And if it has the privacy experience at it
It does stay and that's what it sort of
promotes yourself as that's
fantastic
and it's definitely something that I know a lot of people that are worried about Google and things like that and even Evernote will be
Good sort of moving towards anyway guys big. Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you enjoyed this feature
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Comment below with your thoughts on stand in it without any further ado guys. I will see you guys in a future future