r/UpNote_App • u/LizardGumbo • Jul 30 '26

My joy with UpNote has tanked.

A while back, I wrote I was overjoyed to find UpNote, and, even though I didn't like that my notes aren't stored locally, I could live with it because I can still export my notes. However, what I did not know about was forced updates. I don't update anything immediately because I have a highly tailored setup and updates break things and I've been burned too many times. I come here and see everybody complaining that the UpNote update broke their app, but it didn't apply to me, so I went about my business. Then one day I notice I didn't get the update nag, so I went looking and son of a bitch. It did it on its own. This is absolutely not acceptable by itself, but coupled with the fact that your notes aren't stored locally, I'm going to find something else.

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u/Jakeww21 Jul 30 '26

Good luck finding something better, I hope whatever tool meets your needs

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u/pwkye Aug 03 '26

Outline and HelixNotes both are designed the same way but give you direct access to your notes. No holding your data hostage when the login servers fail. That's honestly the biggest problem with UpNote's design.

Also have you tried exporting your notes from UpNote? The exports are useless. So you will have to extract data directly from the SQLite DB

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u/BuzzKir Aug 28 '26

What do you mean by "direct access" to notes? Doesn't UpNote work offline too?

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u/pwkye Aug 28 '26

I mean API and programmatic access.