How to install Standard Notes in Ubuntu – Best Encrypted Notes App For Linux

In this article, you will learn How to install Standard Notes in Ubuntu – Best Encrypted Notes App For Linux. There are lots of note apps available on the internet but standard notes are an open-source note-taking application and come with some advanced features that you will not find in any other related app. Standard notes encrypted notes app is a cross-platform application that comes for major operating systems like Linux, Microsoft Windows, macOS. For programming languages like HTML, C, C ++, and more, you can use this as an application code editor. It supports up to 120+ programming languages. Automatically indicate program syntax when typing code and syntax highlighting feature is available.

Follow the below steps to install Standard Notes in Ubuntu – Best Encrypted Notes App For Linux:

Before installing the Standard Notes Application, we will need to install the required PPA repositories. To do so follow the command below.

itsmarttricks@mangesh:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for itsmarttricks:
Ign:1 cdrom://Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS _Bionic Beaver_ - Release amd64 (20180725) bionic InRelease
Err:2 cdrom://Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS _Bionic Beaver_ - Release amd64 (20180725) bionic Release
Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
Ign:3 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Hit:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/alessandro-strada/ppa/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:5 http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable InRelease

Now we have to download the Standard Notes Application package from the official website. So to download the same use the below command.

itsmarttricks@mangesh:~$ wget https://github.com/standardnotes/desktop/releases/download/v3.0.6/standard-notes-3.0.6-x86_64.AppImage
--2019-04-01 18:27:39-- https://github.com/standardnotes/desktop/releases/download/v3.0.6/standard-notes-3.0.6-x86_64.AppImage
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 192.30.253.113, 192.30.253.112
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|192.30.253.113|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com/77399704/68bd8100-3501-11e9-9661-f30c18faabfb?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIWNJYAX4CSVEH53A%2F20190401%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20190401T125740Z&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-Signature=6d7e200d6c38bf5d1a1bc4c18e38418915896732caa792cb0f236e7ac30059b1&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&actor_id=0&response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3Dstandard-notes-3.0.6-x86_64.AppImage&response-content-type=application%2Foctet-stream [following]
--2019-04-01 18:27:41-- https://github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com/77399704/68bd8100-3501-11e9-9661-f30c18faabfb?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIWNJYAX4CSVEH53A%2F20190401%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20190401T125740Z&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-Signature=6d7e200d6c38bf5d1a1bc4c18e38418915896732caa792cb0f236e7ac30059b1&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&actor_id=0&response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3Dstandard-notes-3.0.6-x86_64.AppImage&response-content-type=application%2Foctet-stream
Resolving github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com (github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com)... 52.216.82.88
Connecting to github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com (github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com)|52.216.82.88|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 61280315 (58M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘standard-notes-3.0.6-x86_64.AppImage’

standard-notes-3.0. 100%[===================>] 58.44M 3.13MB/s in 19s

2019-04-01 18:28:01 (3.12 MB/s) - ‘standard-notes-3.0.6-x86_64.AppImage’ saved [61280315/61280315]

Here I have downloaded the Standard Notes Application package See the output below.

itsmarttricks@mangesh:~$ ls -l standard-notes-3.0.6-x86_64.AppImage
-rw-r--r-- 1 itsmarttricks itsmarttricks 61280315 Feb 20 22:50 standard-notes-3.0.6-x86_64.AppImage

If you download the package then you must give the user/owner permission to execute. To do so you can use the following command.

itsmarttricks@mangesh:~$ sudo chmod u+x standard-notes-3.0.6-x86_64.AppImage

Permission is granted to the user/owner after changing permissions as you can see below and is ready for package installation.

itsmarttricks@mangesh:~$ ls -l standard-notes-3.0.6-x86_64.AppImage
-rwxr--r-- 1 itsmarttricks itsmarttricks 61280315 Feb 20 22:50 standard-notes-3.0.6-x86_64.AppImage

So let’s go ahead and start the installation. The best part of standard notes is that the encrypted notes app is like a portable application. You do not need to install it. Therefore, after allowing the user permission, you will get the executable setup. Just click on Setup and click Run. See snapshots below.

How to install Standard Notes in Ubuntu 18.04 – Best Encrypted Notes App For Linux
Run Standard Notes Package

After running the above package you will get a message as shown on the snapshot below. Here just click on Yes to continue.

How to install Standard Notes in Ubuntu 18.04 – Best Encrypted Notes App For Linux
Click on Yes

After completing the above steps, the standard notes App will open in front of you. See snapshots below.

How to install Standard Notes in Ubuntu 18.04 – Best Encrypted Notes App For Linux
Standard Notes App

Also Read – How to install VeraCrypt Disk Encryption Application in Ubuntu

You can also open the Standard Notes Application graphically using the Search your computer box. Refer to the snapshot below.

How to install Standard Notes in Ubuntu 18.04 – Best Encrypted Notes App For Linux
Standard Notes

That’s all, In this article, we have explained How to install Standard Notes in Ubuntu – Best Encrypted Notes App For Linux. I hope you enjoy this article. If you like this article, then just share it. If you have any questions about this article, please comment.

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