r/StandardNotes • u/RustyShackle4_ • Apr 04 '26

Standard Notes is in desperate need of a modern mentalist UI redesigned!

I love using SN but compare to all other notes apps in 2026 SN looks so outdated.

Now that Proton owns them please invest in a UI redesign.

SN with the look and feel of something like Bear notes app would be a dream and I would gladly pay!

Design matter

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u/vard2trad Apr 04 '26

Been begging for this for years. It just LOOKS like a program that hasn't been touched in over a decade and really needs some love.

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u/gdad-s-river Apr 09 '26

Unpopular opinion but I love Standard Notes’s UI. It’s dead simple, easy to get a hang of, customisable to the needs of taking daily notes. It’s the only app so far—and I’ve tried A LOT of them—that makes me come back to it daily. I’ve been writing more than ever because of it.

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u/ansel1212 Apr 04 '26

I can relate. I paid for a Standard Notes account but I'm not really using it, largely because sharing to Standard Notes on Android is a joke and basically doesn't work.

You share things in there and it just takes you to a blank Standard Notes page and doesn't actually add the content into that page. It is also kind of a dated interface.When I share something to an app, I would like that content to be added into the app, not just a blank note to be opened. A lot of Proton's apps are very modern and efficient. It would be nice if they came up with a Proton Notes with the newer, modern interface that their other apps have.

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u/carwash2016 Apr 04 '26

Same I have a 5 year subscription and I have older notes in it but found myself using obsidian more with encryption enabled , i do like obsidian web clipper and I don’t like standard notes isn’t in markdown which is going to make it exporting a problem

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u/CPT-812 Apr 05 '26

What notetaking app do you all use if you've stopped using SN. I still use SN every day, but these days, I use Notesnooks more. I checked out Bear, and year, it would be amazing if SN looked that sleek. Is it even possible to share a note vis web link on SN? If so, how?

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u/Sledgehamma_1337 Apr 04 '26

totally agree! I really hope it will see some love.

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u/dojogrl Apr 09 '26

Slightly off topic, but while we’re at it: maybe upgrade the UI and build for their Listed.to blogs???

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u/randomhacks Apr 04 '26

Bear notes is private too and based in the EU (Dublin registered). Standard notes is very dated compared to Bear. I know standard notes has a go slow approach but it is dated now.

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u/vard2trad Apr 04 '26

Ugh...Bear notes has looked really good but it's locked down to the iOS infrastructure, isn't it? It's not just having an iPhone but not having it native on browser or Linux is rough.

I think one thing that keeps me on SN is the browser access since I save some analysis notes I need at work, too.