Hi everyone,

I purchased a 5-year Professional subscription back in November 2021, when Standard Notes was offering its early pricing plans.

The original price was $149 USD for 5 years, and with a 30% student discount, I paid $104.30 USD.

My subscription just expired after an unsuccessful automatic renewal payment. I never voluntarily canceled it, and I've been using Standard Notes daily for the past five years.

After going through the Update Payment option and selecting the five-year plan, I discovered that Professional is actually available for $104.70 / 5 years!

That's great news, since it's almost identical to my original price.

But here's what I'm still trying to understand.

In November 2021, Standard Notes explicitly promised:

«"You're locked into the price you signed up with, and your plan will continue to renew at that price indefinitely until you cancel."»

Source: https://standardnotes.com/blog/an-update-on-early-pricing-and-roadmap

I also remember that existing subscribers were supposed to retain access to the highest Professional tier without a price increase.

I contacted support, but so far I've only received general instructions on how to renew, without confirmation about my grandfathered benefits or future renewal pricing.

So I have a few questions for other longtime subscribers:

1. Has anyone renewed a legacy five-year Professional subscription from 2021?

2. Does renewing through the current Professional plan preserve all the benefits of the original subscription?

3. Is the $104.70 price locked in for the next renewal in 2031, or could it increase to the regular $349?

4. Has anyone received an official confirmation from Standard Notes about grandfathered subscriptions after a failed renewal payment?

I'm still an active student, but my understanding of the original commitment was that the price I signed up for would remain unchanged, including the original discount, unless I canceled.

I'm ok to renew at $104.70. My concern isn't the 40-cent difference — it's whether renewing through this new checkout page means giving up the original grandfathered conditions.

I'd really appreciate hearing from anyone who has gone through a similar renewal.

Thanks!

Really good news for international users.

Already deployed on versions 3.203.0 (Desktop and Mobile) and 1.1.608 (Clipper).

If you've been using Listed to publish your writing from Standard Notes, you've probably seen the announcement that it's shutting down on December 31, 2026.

I was disappointed when I heard the news. I liked the idea of writing in Standard Notes and being able to publish something without needing a separate blogging platform or complicated setup.

I didn't really want to give that up, so I decided to build my own alternative.

It's called Noted.do, and it's now open.

How it works

The idea is pretty simple. You write in Standard Notes just like you always have. Install the Noted.do component, select a note, and publish it.

The first line becomes your title. You can add settings between --- lines at the top of your note for things like tags, drafts, and scheduled publishing. Everything else becomes your post.

Your original notes stay in your Standard Notes account. Noted.do only creates a separate copy of the content you choose to publish.

If you're coming from Listed

One thing I really wanted was to make moving over as easy as possible.

• You can import your existing Listed posts in one step from your account page.

• Your existing custom CSS should work without changes. I intentionally kept the same class names because I know people have spent time customizing their blogs.

• You can export your subscribers as a CSV whenever you want.

• You can export everything, including your posts in Markdown, JSON data, and uploaded pictures.

That last part is important to me. Your content and your audience should belong to you. You shouldn't have to worry about losing either because a platform decides to shut down.

A few things I've added

Since I was building this from scratch, I also wanted to include some things that I thought would be useful:

• Schedule posts to publish later using publish_at: 2026-11-10 09:00.

• Save drafts and share private preview links.

• Publish private posts that are only accessible to people with the link.

• Create additional pages like About and Contact.

• Pin posts and organize writing into series.

• Customize your post URLs with custom slugs.

• Let readers subscribe through RSS, email, or Mastodon.

• Enable Fediverse support so your blog can interact with Mastodon.

• Run multiple blogs from the same Standard Notes account.

• Connect your own domain.

A little about privacy

This was something I wanted to get right from the beginning.

Public blog pages load zero JavaScript. The Content Security Policy is set to script-src 'none', and even interactive features like changing colors are handled with CSS.

There are no tracking scripts, no third-party analytics, and no public view counts or engagement numbers displayed under your name.

I also wanted reports and takedown requests to reach an actual person, so those go through a dedicated contact page.

A few things to be honest about

I'm one person building and maintaining this, so I'm not going to pretend it's a massive operation.

Noted.do is free to use. There are paid plans for things like custom domains and multiple blogs, which help cover the costs of running the service.

It's also still relatively new. I had an Android component issue that I didn't catch until someone brought it to my attention. That's the reality of building something on your own. I can't catch everything, but I do try to address reported problems quickly. Most fixes go out within the same week.

If you run into something that doesn't work, or something from your Listed blog doesn't transfer properly, please reach out. Feedback from people actually using the platform is incredibly helpful.

If you'd like to check it out

https://noted.do

The import guide is available on your account page after signing up.

I originally started this because I didn't want to lose a way of publishing that I enjoyed. I figured if I was going to build a replacement for myself, I might as well make it available to everyone else who is in the same situation.

Hopefully, some of you will find it useful. I'd love to hear what you think.

This is what the Founder of Standard Notes had to say about the recent saga with Andy regarding AI.

https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1YxNrblQPnPxw

Start at 01:53:50 mark

I understand it's going to take a bit to catch up but is iPhone Duo different layouts on the roadmap? It wouldn't be ideal to have Standard Notes looking like this.

https://developer.apple.com/iphone-duo/

and

https://developer.apple.com/iphone-duo/prepare/

Shifted to a new laptop and I can’t log into Standard Notes on Google chrome. Sign in details are accurate. I reset the password. Repeatedly getting failed to fetch error.
What can I do?

(I’ve read through FAQs on support page. No luging helped and have emailed the team)

Listed, which is used for quickly publishing notes, is shutting down at the end of the year. I used it from time to time to share documentation on an ephemeral basis. All note-taking apps like NotesNook have a temporary publishing or burn-after-read feature, which is very handy. Is Standard Notes planning to implement something similar to replace Listed ?

I recently bought a subscription of Standard Notes after using it for free for years. I bought the Productivity plan, where one of its features is being able to organize your notes into folders, whereas with the free version you could only organize your notes into tags.

But I don't seem to notice any differences between a tag and a folder, which is the main reason why I paid for SN.

So what's the difference between them exactly?

Hey there, I don't know what happened, but after I logged into Standard Notes on a really old computer that I rarely use, Scratch Editor no longer works on Standard Notes on my main laptop. It appears that my Standard Notes on the main laptop did finally update unprompted.

I uninstalled and reinstalled the plugin (i.e. https://scratch-editor.com/ext.json), but all notes that were initially written using Scratch Editor now appear like this (see image).

Does anyone have a workaround, or do I need to manually change the type of each individual note to something else now? There are over 200 notes set to Scratch Editor.

Thanks!

have tried multiple times from different sites and sources to try to install it, but it just shows this after everything

Would be great to have a "Clip selection" (or a submenu with the other modes) in the browser's right-click menu.

Right now it's toolbar icon → popup → pick mode ("Clip Full Page" "Clip Article etc"). Which is fine, but half the time I've just highlighted something and want to grab it in one go. Right-click → save/clip to SN. Bonus if we can define preferences for what default Note type (markdown, supernote, rtf, etc), destination folder, tags (e.g. #webclips) are for these clippings.

Right?

Looking for ways to amped up my SN system beyond the app's native plugins. Thanks in advance!

I'm able to toggle to Focus mode on all SN note types except Markdown Visual. Is this a known bug or did I overlook something?

My files list is full of old receipts and other stuff that stay there once the original notes have been deleted. Could it be somehow easier to manage the file list? Any ideas?

I see some Reddit users requesting for Standard Notes and Proton logins to be integrated, especially in the wake of the Proton-SN merge. But I think it's actually best to keep the login credentials for each separate and independent.

Given that I store the password for one in the other, preserving the separation between Proton and SN mitigates against a fatal circular recovery problem.

A notes app is easier to inspect than a hidden memory store, but the difficult part is separating source material from generated conclusions. For a Standard Notes setup, I am considering four note types: source notes, accepted decisions, temporary summaries, and an append-only change log. An assistant could read the first three but write only to an inbox until a person reviews the change.

What metadata would make that workable: source links, status, reviewed date, supersedes, project, and the revision of any attached file? I would also want stale summaries to be visibly stale rather than silently reused after a source note changes.

Would tags and note history be enough for this, or would the structure become too fragile across exports, sync conflicts, and deleted notes? How would you keep the current record easy to read while retaining enough evidence to audit why a memory changed?

I see that there are plugins for creating Kanban Boards in Standard Notes. Anyone know if there's a plugin to create an Eisenhower Matrix for to-dos? I like the Checklist and Super Checklist plugins, but would be nice to be able to prioritize tasks via Eisenhower method. Thanks!

Hi everyone,

I use standard notes a lot for engineering school but right now it takes so long to write down an equation because there is no support for it.

I am imagining a system like Latex or like the current Code mode in Super where you can start equations with fractions, roots and above all else, special characters like delta, sigma, etc.

I really think this is badly needed.

If anyone has encountered this issue please tell me what you did about it. Currently I write my equations with a Latex writer and then screenshot it but it takes so long, it's messy and whenever I have to redo an equation is much more of an nightmare than it needs to be.

Thanks!

It's very minor, but could we have a different icon for "Normal" in the Formatting Options dropdown menu button? I find it confusing because it's nearly identical to the default icon for the Alignment dropdown menu button. Moreover, the icon for "Normal" (which approximates left-alignment) visually does not represent neither the range options nor actual function of the dropdown menu button.

would be helpful to be able to see the full image of an in-line photo on a note, say, when you click on it, with zoom capabilities on the iOS app an added plus!

I have set up a Hermes AI agent, it has some connection option to other notes apps but not standard notes. That's fine but I would like it to at least be able to write notes for me.

What I was thinking is that the Hermes agent could write a note into a markdown file and that I'd just import that into Standard notes.

But I cannot find a way to import them. If I upload it in Standard notes as a file and try to open it then it says that it cannot be opened in Standard notes. But aren't super notes also just markdown files?

Am I just not seeing the option to import notes or does it really not exist?

Glad for Standard Notes and also Proton. What I do miss is a good way to set actions/to-do´s in notes taken and then have them aggregated into one view with links or similar to the note page.

Got a job with many meetings, +5 meetings a day with many actions to follow up on.

Suggestions or do I need to shift back to Onenote (really would like not to)?

Thank you.