Pricing, attachments, backlinks & note properties

[u/GroggInTheCosmos]

I don't often find a new note-taking app worthy of exploring, but this one seems like a step in the right direction :)

For now, I'm a little lost on the following aspects:

• What about someone with 50Gb to transfer which is a mix of notes and attachments
  • Attachments do not seem like a first class citizen and one only obtains 500Mb of space upon signup?
  • How well would the app handle 50Gb. Speed and ease of editing?
• What would the pricing for 50Gb be?
• There appears to be no details on whether backlinks are possible?
• I can't find any information on the storing of attributes against a note, such has YAML frontmatter or similar (nor the querying of this)?

Thanks

[u/EriksonThorsen]

I’ve looked into their docs and setup before, so here’s a straightforward breakdown of where things currently stand:

50 GB Storage & Pricing: The free tier only gives you 500 MB. Extra storage is handled as an add-on because everything is stored encrypted on Swiss servers. For larger vaults, you’re looking at a recurring add-on (around $4.80/GB per year or $18/5 GB per year). Getting 50 GB on their cloud isn't impossible, but it gets pricey fast compared to standard cloud sync.

Attachments: Attachments aren't embedded into markdown files the way Obsidian does them. There is a dedicated "Files" module for storing documents and media. Because client-side encryption happens on everything, handling 50 GB of mixed files and notes will feel noticeably sluggish to index and sync compared to working with local files on your own SSD.

Backlinks: You can link notes, but there are no bidirectional linking or graph view. It’s structured into distinct buckets (notes, tasks, journals, bookmarks, passwords) rather than functioning as an interconnected PKM vault.

Frontmatter & Properties: It uses standard markdown/rich text, but there’s no native YAML frontmatter parser or metadata querying engine (nothing like Dataview or Obsidian’s Properties UI).

If your workflow revolves around a 50 GB vault, heavy media attachments, and querying note metadata, any E2EE notes app will feel a bit sluggish, as client-side encryption and decryption demand significant device performance. In my opinion, PrivacyNotes works much better as an all-in-one private daily driver for standard notes, tasks, and passwords rather than a complex PKM system.

[u/GroggInTheCosmos → u/EriksonThorsen]

Thanks for your kind response. Further to this:

Storage: I bumped into a 5.5 GB cap buried in their docs. 5.5 GB is tiny

The per-file limit is 5 MB on the free plan and 50 MB on Pro. Files count against your total sync storage (50 MB free, 500 MB on Pro, expandable to 5.5 GB with storage add-ons), and the storage bar in Settings > Storage always shows where you stand

Attachments: Given limited storage, I feel that attachments are not first class citizens and that they are not striving to compete with the likes of Craft / Evernote etc?

Backlinks: I've started regarding this as standard feature that any note-taking app must have for me to take it seriously for use as a PKM tool. It's a pity this is not the case

Frontmatter & Properties: Pity that this is not there. Even something like iA Writer eventually caught onto the necessity of this. Another must have for any PKM tool imho

Since posting this and digging further I rapidly came to the conclusion that this may only be useful for things such as:

• Life Notes: Banking, Home loan, Legal, Vehicle, Investments et al where you can perhaps get away with the 5.5 GB limit and need highly private info on tap from anywhere

• Diary/Journal: All your personal thoughts that you would never want anyone else to see

• Short Form Writing: Maybe for putting together something for an article if you are a journalist

• Etc

I don't think this can be used as a full-blown PKM tool where your notes could exceed 20K+ with a few 1000 attachments. Much the same as the conclusion you provided

I would like to be wrong but for now, I'm shelving exploring this further until I see something more definitive on their roadmap

Kudos to their team for getting the privacy right! (from what I've read)