I know Proton is collaborating with Standard Notes, but I would like to have a notes app that is part of the Proton suite. As I have read on the most recent Standard Notes posting about Proton on X, it seems as though Standard Notes is going to remain independent and not become part of Proton's offerings. Therefore, I'm hoping Proton will do something on their own and offer it to us subscribers. Can we get this done @ProtonSupport?

Please add note app.

Include markdown format.

This make more sense, I personal don't start migrating notes and do not use standard notes because is not integrated with the proton ecosystem

Bumping.

Was excited to learn the very excellent Standard Notes was "joining" the Proton ecosystem, but bummed out to see what that really meant to me as the consumer.

I hope Proton eventually releases a note-taking app similar to Standard Notes or NotesNook.

Or maybe Standard Notes can offer a discounted rate to Proton consumers? 🙂

Daily note-taking is hard when Proton does not have similar app.

I support rebranding Standard Notes into Proton Notes. Changing the branding to Standard Notes powered by Proton and making the icon purple might be an option as well.

I think it might be better to have two separate products. Having a simple Proton Notes that works more like Apple Notes, Google Keep, Evernote, etc is essential. It would also be nice to have Standard Notes become a competitor to OneNote. There is no other software that works like OneNote, and it's the only Microsoft Product that I still use for personal use because all of its competitors don't quite match its features and use cases.

I can only agree with my peers here.
For a while now, I've been looking for a cross-platform privacy respecting notes taking app that runs on MacOS (work) and Linux (private).

As a Proton Duo client, I'd love to see Standard Notes in the form of Proton Notes or something like that <3

Agree! pls update UI & name.
Also, Make it possible to take a photo (with a single step) and adjust the picture so it becomes perfect even if it has been taken from a strange angle, and display it immediately in the notes. Very useful if you are attending a long presention and need separate notes to each picture you have taken. Now you have to go to files and attach a picture... that takes to long time.

Rebranding or integrating Standard Notes as Proton Notes would improve visibility and trust. People already recognize the Proton name, so they are more likely to try it. A better UI plus a strong brand could attract more users and increase paid subscriptions.

Just a few notes here (pun not intended), food for thought.

Standard Notes seems not functional anymore and appears to have been abandoned.
Proton Docs is not an appropriate solution for this use case, as it addresses a different scope.
A note taking application is intended to be lightweight and focused on the quick capture and organisation of notes, ideas, and details, similar in nature to tools such as Notion. Supporting Markdown can be useful for some users, but making Markdown the only option limits flexibility and can add unnecessary friction for a simple note taking application.

A note taking application must be lightweight, simple, fast, and well organised. This is particularly important for business use cases, such as managing multiple clients with separate vaults, keeping private notes visible only to the author, or maintaining content that must remain invisible to the client. The application should allow the creation of a new note instantly and without distractions, ideally through a browser extension or a quick action menu. If opening a browser is required every time a note needs to be captured, the process becomes impractical and the application might be abandoned.

The same applies to overly complex applications that require long structural decisions about where to save content, how to organise it, or that enforce a single document based workflow. Note taking is inherently a fast, low friction activity and requires a dedicated solution designed specifically for that workflow.

Reading other comments, someone already mentioned valuable tools such as OneNote, Notesnook, Google Keep, Obsidian, or Notion as reference

This would be a game changer for me. I'd subscribe to Unlimited in a heartbeat if a modernized and streamlined cross-platform Standard Notes app was part of it.

EDIT: Love Markdown!

bring proton notes into the main group of apps rather than it being a different product requiring a different subscription

A Proton alternative for OneNote would actually be top-tier-software.

There is basically no true competitor for OneNote out there, less so when privacy is key.

Stylus support for handwriting and/or PDF annotations would be amazing!

Standard Notes subscription is my worst purchase of the year. The free version was just the right amount of tease to make me bite the bullet for a sub. And boy was I disappointed.

I hope someday soon Proton team completely takes over Standard Notes, integrates it into Proton ecosystem, and credits the remaining time on SN subscriptions as Proton credit.

Note-taking is essential today, yet existing solutions are far from satisfactory.
Many applications are not truly secure. Some are paid but offer no features that justify sometimes exorbitant subscription fees for simple note-taking. And when they are free, it is often because the data is being analyzed.

Moreover, most apps are poorly or not at all configurable. Google Keep, in my opinion, is one of the most advanced solutions, but it is still limited, even just in terms of its layout. You can use tags, but there is no way to create folders, organize, or group notes. Tags work well when you have a small number of notes, not when you have 20 or 30 notes on the same topic.

And then there is a real question: what exactly does Google have access to through its note-taking application?

In short, the idea is excellent, but a serious solution is missing. Proton should develop a basic, simple, truly secure note-taking application, configurable in terms of organization, and accessible both on PC and smartphone. After all, that’s the whole point of notes: being able to find them everywhere, on every device you need.

It would better to use Markdown format than creating a Proton format because Markdown is universal so it facilitates interoperability with other note-taking systems.

I agree with you Paul.

I believe Proton misrepresented themselves when they initially announced their "joining forces" with Standard Notes. Then on 12 December (One week ago as of today) they put this out on X.

https://x.com/ProtonPrivacy/status/1999506923385770226?s=20

As a paying business customer since 2018 and someone who's followed Proton's progress as well as listened to Andy Yen say time after time that Proton is a customer led company, having no shareholders to answer to. Only to then watch them offer products I'm not seeing people ask for is disheartening.

Paul, you're right. I also have the professional tier of Notesnook, and it is superior to Standard Notes.

It's hard to see what Proton users get from this joining of forces. Notesnook is the better product to me, and cheaper than SN. Join forces with them and integrate Drive, Calendar, and Lumo there. What portion of my Proton fee goes to improving SN, which I can't use other than a very limited Free version? I'm certainly not paying for SN in addtion to Proton.

100% AGREED! But it should be Standard Notes (Productivity level) and not Standard Notes (Standard level). Proton Sheets should be included as well.