![]() The program auto-saves notes that you create/edit.ĪlephNote displays an icon on the system tray, though it does not close to it by default. Notes can be exported to a plain-text file. The View menu has options to change the note preview style, note sorting, and toggles for always on top, word wrap, line number and read-only mode. The 2nd menu, called Insert, is useful for adding a clickable hypertext (URL), email address, link to a local file, or a shortcut to another note. The Insert Snippet menu lets you add the current date and time to the note in a single-click. There are two sub-menus of interest here. Head to the Edit menu to manually sync the notes. The status bar at the bottom of the editor displays timestamps to indicate when the last synchronization took place, the length of the note, the number of lines in it, etc. ![]() The program encrypts the content used with Standard Notes locally, before it is synced with the server. Your cloud notes are available locally, and new notes that you create with AlephNote are available on the servers of SimpleNote and Standard Notes. AlephNote supports plain-text formatting, Markdown format with word wrap. Give it a name, and optionally assign some tags using the next field. Next, click in the field that says "Empty Title", at the top of the editor. Selecting a note loads it in the other pane, this is basically a text editor.Click on the + icon at the top of the list, to add a new Note. The list of your existing notes is displayed on the left pane. AlephNote will download your notes when you use the option, click on OK to complete the set up. Enter your credentials to login to the provider.Ĭlick on the "Synchronize" button to begin the log in process. The program's set up process for both services is quite similar. I used the offline modes, Simple Note and Standard Note. The first two options allow you to use AlephNote offline. Upon the first run, you'll be given 5 options to choose from: Not a fan of cloud-based note services? No problem, the application can be used as an offline text editor/note-taking program. You may also use it to sync it with your Standard Notes account, which is also open source and has Electron-based desktop program).ĪlephNote can also be used with your own NextCloud server. That's still significantly lighter than the 100MB bloatware.īut, the important point is that AlephNote is not restricted to Simplenote accounts. The program is a 3MB download, is a portable software, which when extracted to a folder sums up to about 7MB. Besides, it weighs over 100MB to download.ĪlephNote is an open source and lightweight client for Simplenote. It's worth mentioning that the official Simplenote desktop program is written in Electron. ![]() When I came to know that the service has a web version (accessed from the browser), I uninstalled the standalone tool.
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