![]() And, if open source doesn't matter to you, there's always Microsoft OneNote. For older versions of Android, tap Settings and choose Display. But Obsidian's mobile app is still in development, and I'm a bit iffy about buying another subscription just for encrypted sync. To enable dark mode on your Android device, tap Settings at the top and choose Theme. Obsidian.md has the benefit of having everything as plain text files, for easy editing in other apps (there's also no need to export anything if they go out of business compared to Standard Notes/Joplin). Personally I would rather have one really good text editor than a bunch of half-baked ones.īut Joplin is sluggish compared to both Standard Notes and Obsidian.md. Only the "bold" editor allows you to upload images, and using FileSafe is extremely fiddly. Standard Notes has multiple text editor options and they all suck. However, compared to Joplin, uploading images to notes is a pain. Joplin is E2E but refuses to encrypt locally, meaning someone who browses your computer can view your notes unless you use Joplin Portable in an encrypted container (with the added performance overhead). ![]() Standard Notes is one of the few apps that has end-to-end encrytion AND password protection on the desktop (or Face ID on mobile devices). You're less likely to notice that your eyeballs have dried out from staring into your screen.I have a love/hate relationship with Standard Notes (and with most encrypted editors in general). You can scroll on and on well into the night without disruption. Twitter, for example, found that users spent more time in its app when dark mode was turned on. ![]() Sucked into the soothing blacks and grays, you're less likely to put your phone away. Coders have used black backgrounds for decades-presumably to keep from disrupting programming sessions that stretch well into the night.Īnd that may be the real reason for the rise of dark mode. It's less jarring, and it better suits our all-day, all-night screen consumption. ![]() Still, staring into a dark screen just feels better for some of us. It's not yet clear whether iOS 13 uses pure black, but Apple executives made no mention of battery savings when they announced the feature last week. Gmail's standard dark theme turns the background steel gray Slack's dark theme goes dark, but not quite black. It also won't save battery power if the dark mode design uses any color other than pure black as the background. But the main reason he sees designers going dark is simply, as he puts it, “because it is cool.” So if dark mode makes it slightly harder for us to read what's onscreen, and most people don't have a strong preference for it anyway, why do designers keep foisting it on us? Roman Banks, an app designer and developer who's worked on interfaces for platforms like WhatsApp, says darker themes can make certain designs pop or give users a way to customize their experience. The results of that (admittedly informal) survey showed that nearly half of respondents preferred blog designs that were “always light,” while only 10 percent preferred “always dark.” (The remaining respondents chose “depends on the blog,” or “I don’t care either way.”) In 2009, ProBlogger surveyed readers on this very question. It's not even clear that most people prefer dark mode as a purely aesthetic choice. Mayr calls it an “open research question.” It's possible that people with vision loss have an easier time reading web text on a black background-and indeed, dark mode is often billed as an accessibility feature-but the research hasn't been entirely conclusive. ( They don't.) For some people, dark mode themes with especially high contrast might even contribute to fatigue and strain. This seems to hold up even in populations like the elderly, which some researchers have hypothesized might benefit from negative polarity.
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