A Proposal to Remove Notable from the Worth Mentioning List #1716
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Abstract
Notable is now considered Worth Mentioning software in the digital
notebook software recommendations. It should be removed, because of
several reasons.
1 Proposal
Notable is now considered Worth Mentioning [1] in the digital notebook
software recommendations. It should be removed, because of reasons listed
below.
2 Reasons
2.1 No longer open-source
The developers of Notable decided to make Notable proprietary since the
version v.1.5.2, while the latest version now is v.1.8.4. [2] [3] The use
of older and unsupported versions should generally be deprecated, however
as the newer versions of the application is proprietary, the users have to
choose between open-source but no official support and official support
but
proprietary. Either choice is unwise from a privacy perspective.
2.2 Use of third-party synchronization providers
Notable now only officially supports synchronization using some notorious
privacy-invasive third-party providers, such as Google Drive and Dropbox
[4], so users who want to avoid these
providers have to manually set up synchronization, which is a tiring and
uneconomical job, especially considering how Notable promotes itself to
improve efficiency of users. While the developers plan to add a
first-party service [5], the security and privacy of it still cannot be
guaranteed.
2.3 No emphasis on privacy-related features
Notable promotes itself as a digital notebook to improve the efficiency of
users. However, while it emphasizes on a lot of its convenient features,
such as support for KaTeX math formulas or multiple viewing themes [6], it
doesn't have particular emphasis on privacy-related features. Considering
it is also proprietary now, it has become "yet another (proprietary)
digital notebook software" now, from a privacy perspective.
3 Conclusion
Notable should be removed from the "Worth Mentioning" list in the digital
notebook software recommendations.
This report is hereby published using the Creative Commons CC0 License
[7], and the tex source file is published under GNU Free Documentation
License v 1.3 or later [8].
References
[1] https://www.privacytools.io/software/notebooks/
[2] https://github.com/notable/notable/blob/master/SOURCE_CODE.md
[3] https://github.com/notable/notable/releases
[4] https://notable.md/static/images/comparison.png
[5] More features, https://notable.md/
[6] https://github.com/notable/notable
[7] https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
[8] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.3.html
I would agree with this, as we already have open source alternatives, there is no reason for us to list notable any longer.
Same. I back this.
The creator has explained why here . Although it is a valid explanation, someone with no knowledge of this, would assume the code is still open. In their website, they still proudly display the github logo that redirects to a repo that seems legit, but which is just a place holder now.