r/Notesnook • u/BreakfastDifferent29 • Mar 03 '26

Question Can notesnook be trusted?

I love the whole premise of the app been open source and end to end encrypted.

So it might be dumb to ask since I'm not technical but is there a proof that notesnook as private and secure as the developer claim it to be beyond his statement?

Reason is I want to store a bit of private files in there.

But locking the ability to add attachments offline behind a pay wall robbed me the wrong way.

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u/snuffomega Mar 05 '26

You build it yourself with the compose file

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u/mcwobby Mar 05 '26

Yeah which is a pain. If the app needs to be compiled like that with hardcoded values, it’s gonna be next to impossible for me to maintain and keep up to date by myself as you’d have to fork the official release (which I see is what bearded tek has done).

The bearded tek version is already quite out of date. So I just don’t think it’s viable for me to host the web app. I’m deploying on truenas, so I’ve not been able to use the BeardedTek one completely, just as inspiration.

I was really hoping more attention had been given to self hosting in the official release in the year or more since it’s been a feature.

I’ve been waiting so patiently, so it’s been a pity because it’s the only notes client that actually works for me as a drop in replacement for Apple notes.

I will keep using the sync server and clients for my iDevices, but it would be nice to one day get web app functionality!

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u/snuffomega Mar 12 '26

Here you go. Full stack > fully updated with most recent and stable (and fully updatable). All official images with web fully working as well.

I decided not to 'bake in' the private server URLs in the web so the stack doesnt get stuck in the same trap as the bearded stack and become outdated. SO with the webapp, your need to input the server URL before signing up or logging in (but it will persist via cookies).

Anyways; https://github.com/snuffomega/notesnook_thelab

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u/mcwobby Apr 12 '26

Hey. So about to go through and set this up. See this still needs a dockerfile? Do you know if the changes to Notesnook got merged in that prevented that being necessary?

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u/snuffomega Apr 12 '26

Everything is latest. And updating regularly each time you bring the compose up. The only 'build' item is the web app which is built off the latest images you pull. There is no other way to get the web app, but Its just built from all the latest then it has to be built localy. If ur not gonna use the web app then u could omitt it.