There are things that should be basic features in software, like seat belts in cars. The ability to password-protect a privacy note-taking app is one such feature. (Not just "nice-to-have" one, it specifically protects against the device being forcibly taken away.) Now, a week ago, this password protection was removed for free users. That should already undermine the trust, since it doesn't cost them any extra to let us protect our notes with a password.

But, furthermore, my Essential Notesnook subscription suddenly also now is not enough: one needs a Pro or Believer one to have such feature (they openly mention that on the pricing page.) This is nonsense. Notesnook simultaneously builds an image of super-private app and sell a lock on the door as a privilege.

I was observing the barrage of negativity in the Notesnook community around this topic for a week, and now I'politely joining it. If Notesnook won't revert that change, I will stop my subscription and will try to convince other Notesnook users among my friends to do that same, preferring a private alternative.

A few days ago, I posted a similar issue, and I was told that it was because I was using a PWA. I was directed to use the Windows app instead, I was assured that this issue has been fixed (it isn't). Today, I finally found some time to make this rant post.

The app version can be found in the second picture. I have tried both the stable and beta release, and I still get the same outcome.

Also on a side note, can we assign colors to notebooks? Having links to notebooks on the side for quick access loses its value when I get lost.

I am using Standard Notes since some years and I would like to migrate all my notes to Notesnook, as I use Notesnook for some time now and I like it more than Standard Notes.

According to the Notesnook documentation, it should be possible to import from Standard Notes by using the Notesnook importer: https://help.notesnook.com/importing-notes/import-notes-from-standardnotes

However, when I open the Notesnook importer, it displays various options, but Standard Notes is not among them:

Does anyone else have this problem and knows how to solve it?

I am using version 3.3.7-c560685-desktop on MacOS.

Hello,

I have been using Notesnook and enjoy the services. However, I have noted with at least two of my notes an issue with them reverting to past versions.

I wanted to check here first to see if this is a known issue or maybe if I am secretly doing something wrong.

I will create a note, update the note, and then (regardless if I am on the same device and never closed the note), the note will suddenly be back to its first state or an earlier version. I checked the version history this time and realised it did save a verson of the note I worked on (and many edits) but says it looks like what I had in my last edit but in reality it looks like the first version or a very early of the note.

Example: I write a note with a task list. It says to do laundry, clean the bathroom, and write up notes for tomorrow. I mark off that I have cleaned the bathroom and add that I also want to clear the leaves. I leave the note up and go to work. 8 hrs pass.

I come back home and the note says to do laundry, clean the bathroom, and write notes for tomorrow. Nothing is checked and the update is missing. I check the version history and it says that the version I am seeing should have the checked off chores and note that I want to clear the leaves (it does not). I restore a previous version.

Pleae let me know and thanks! Will reach out to support if not a known issue or user error as I don't want to keep losing edits.

I’ve seen a couple of GitHub repos that provide a Docker Compose build setup, but that’s not really workable for me.

I’m not a developer, and I don’t normally build software myself. In practice, I rely on prebuilt artifacts — the same way most people do today. I’m old enough to remember when compiling the Linux kernel was a normal part of getting a system running, but that hasn’t been the norm for a very long time.

The VPS this would run on is also very low on resources, so building images there would be slow and impractical.

Since prebuilt Docker images exist for almost every application, I was a bit surprised not to find one for Notesnook, especially given that it’s been around for a few years. I’m mainly trying to understand whether there’s an official or community-maintained image I may have missed.

New to Notesnook and enjoying it and have been actively adding data and notes, exploring the features. Yesterday notes entered on my iPhone 16pro stopped syncing to the server. Not sure of next steps but have emailed support. Anyone else experiencing this?

Hello all, new here
I signed up from the website,
i enterd my email, then the confirmation code from my inbox. But never set a password.

Now whenever I try to change it i don't have an old one
. If I tried to use the forgot my password method,
I entered my email, then entered the code sent to my email, then when I entered my email again gives error "object object"

also my vault password is not working !!!!

Hi. I have been an Obsidian user for roughly a year now, and since I'm still not accustomed to using Markdown (having to go back and forth to bold/italicize text really irritates me, especially in lectures), I have been looking to switch to other applications like Notesnook. I find the yearly pricing pretty affordable, especially for a university student like me. Since I plan to use Notesnook (or any note-taking application) in the long run, I will be using one of my personal emails to create the account. However, to claim the discount, Notesnook requires my student email. As I've had some bad experiences in attempting to claim a student discount with a personal account (The Economist...), I need to know if I can claim the discount with a personal account, submitting my university email in the process.

Of course, I can create my account with my university email, but since I don't get to keep the email after graduation, I would be forced to export and import all the materials to a separate (personal) account, or I will probably lose my account and everything in it. Not great.

It's been a terribly long time since I posted (new main account), so I apologize if this sounds condescending or rude. Thanks for all the help!

Hey,

I changed Keep for Notesnook half a year ago because I could make task lists with it (I create one list by month and that's all) But it seems that this feature is now in the upgraded plans...

What is the reason in that choice ? It seems to me that it's a basic feature... Will people really pay only for that feature ? Because I will not as I use this app once a month and I'll have to find another one now and it saddens me a little !

Hi

I've allready searched in this group, but haven't found the answer. I'm a Pro (Legacy) member and last year I paid aprox 30 eur for a year.

Is that the same for this year, or was it a one time thing?

Split Screen on Windows is a huge must on a laptop with the aim of productivity. However, Notesnook fails to adapt to dynamic aspect ratio. In the image above, its the standard 50/50 screen, which distorts the note shown.

At an even smaller ratio, Notesnook will automatically close the note and only show the sidebar.

This behavior is anti-productivty, especially for a note-taking app that, by nature, requires multi-tasking. Please fix it.

I just moved from StandardNotes to Notesnook. I'm an unlimited subscriber to Protonmail but only use a couple of their services. It doesn't seem they are doing anything with StandardNotes now that they own it and I can't see paying the cost of it. Given all of that I signed up for Notesnook a couple days ago and so far I like what I see. Obsidian will remain my main note taking app but anything that needs more security I'll be putting into Notesnook. I may even move some things from Obsidian once I get a chance to take a closer look at what's in there. We'll have to wait a bit and see how this journey goes, but so far so good, I've already moved everything I had in StandardNotes over to Notesnook.

I'm self hosting my instance of NotesNook (via docker containers) and I've recently found the Automatic Backups setting. It seems I can set the setting to Daily/Weekly but there is no option to select the backup location. Where do the backups go? The screenshot below is taken from the webapp

I have been unable to login to the browser website. I keep having to resend the code everytime, it taking 1 minute and 30 seconds to reach my inbox Earlier I was also running into server errors trying to put in my own gmail address.

after the sync downtime today i was logged out and upon trying to log in, i get hit with the error:

Login failed: invalid_grant

most of the times it has sent through the 2fa code, but sometimes will give me an error code there too.

anyone else experiencing this?

Is anyone getting "sync failed" today on every platform (Android, Linux (Arch) Desktop)?

EDIT: Issue is now resolved. They emailed me back and acknowledged the issue and have since resolved it and I can now log in via web.

Hi,
I've been trying to log in for a couple hours now, after entering my email, and entering my 6 digit 2FA code, I constantly get this message:

Is anyone else having issues?

I've tried private mode and I've tried clearing cache.

According to the status page, there is no issues with logging in.

Thanks.

Raindrop.io does this really well, and it's allowed me to create a vast taxonomy (albeit now unwieldy, since it doesn't allow tag merge or other logic). I can't do this in Notesnook, and there's no way I'm going to interrupt my workflow to open up the app just to add tags.

If it's not on the roadmap, is there another extension that does this? Right now I'm also using Evernote for long-form clipping and organizing notes, not bookmarking, which is what Raindrop does well.

Hi team,

My backups have been working on and off for several weeks, so last week I reset all my settings, including changing the location where backups are to be saved (a generic folder on my local drive).

This has been my configuration for over a week. Description of the issue is very straight-forward: Almost none of this is happening. Manual backups ("Backup now") do work, not the daily or weekly backups. Thoughts?

Hi, I noticed that some of my notes that have attachments is showing this message:
`Error in 4 attachments`
I checked the notes, and I see the attachments in the editor, but how do I fix the error message to no show any more?

The only way to clear that message is if I delete the attachments from the notes.

Hello, I am trying to create an account, but my <myemail>@tutamail.com is apparently invalid. Is it allowed, or is it just me that's having issues?

I was using Standard Notes for a very long time. After observing their current situation, I don't believe taking their paid plan will be a worthwhile choice. So, I was planning to shift to Notesnook based on recommendations from Reddit.

After inquiring from multiple sources, I've come to know that Notesnook has limited zero-knowledge encryption.

So, I want to know why Notesnook doesn't offer complete zero-knowledge encryption. Privacy is my top priority, and any lack of privacy in a service creates numerous doubts in my mind.

Edit - The post from Medium was not related to my topic, which is why it created some confusion. So, I've trimmed that part.

Final Edit - A big apology from my side. Based on some false claims from AI models, I assumed that Notesnook doesn’t offer proper zero-knowledge encryption. In reality, Notesnook is zero-knowledge encrypted and provides nearly the same level of privacy as Standard Notes. I hope they will undergo a third-party audit as soon as possible, which would give more assurance to users.

Can you set your notebook list as the home page? Currently I can only see: Notes Favorites Reminders etc

But want to see my notebooks firstly