Standard Notes[1] is a simple, encrypted notes app that aims to make dealing with your notes the easiest thing you'll do all day. When you sign up for a free sync account, your notes are automatically encrypted and seamlessly synced with all your devices.
There are two key factors that differentiate Standard Notes from other, commercial software solutions:
- The server and client are both completely open source.
- The company is built on sustainable business practices and focuses on product development.
When you combine open source with ethical business practices, you get a software product that has the potential to serve you for decades. You start to feel ownership in the product rather than feeling like just another transaction for an IPO-bound company.
In this article, I’ll describe how to deploy your own Standard Notes open source syncing server on a Linux machine. You’ll then be able to use your server with our published applications for Linux, Windows, Android, Mac, iOS, and the web.
If you don’t want to host your own server and are ready to start using Standard Notes right away, you can use our public syncing server. Simply head on over to Standard Notes[2] to get started.
Hosting your own Standard Notes server
Get the Standard File Rails app[3] running on your Linux box and expose it via NGINX[4] or any other web server.
Getting started
These instructions are based on setting up our syncing server on a fresh CentOS[5]-like installation. You can use a hosting service like AWS[6] or DigitalOcean[7] to launch your server, or even run it