First Impressions of Standard Notes

I have only been using Standard Notes for about a week, but there are a few serious issues I have encountered, and a few functions that are missing, which are kind of essential to me. So I thought I'd share my thoughts.

What's Broke

• When I expand the MacOS app to full screen and then try and click on the new note icon, the note app starts misbehaving. The only way to explain what happens is that when I try and click on the icon, the app starts shrinking an then expanding, so that it's impossible to click. I'll try and make a screen video of it happening. It's really weird and only happens when the app is expanded above a certain size. Today I have had to create notes from the web app and then switch to the desktop version.
• When using the web app and I try and publish a post to Listed, I receive an error message - An issue occurred while processing this action. Please try again. I then have to switch back to the desktop version to publish the blog post.

Wishlist - Standard Notes

• The forward slash function need an Emoji selector - I use emoji's a lot in my writing and it's long winded to add other ways.
• Keyboard shortcuts feel limited, for example on a Apple Mac, Command + N always create a new document in about every document based application, but seems to be missing from Standard Notes.
• When using the iPhone app you are not prompted to set a PIN or biometrics. I had to search through the settings to enable these. For a security first note taking app I am surprised this isn't the case.
• I need the ability to change the font colour and highlight colour, the same as Proton Docs.
• Drag and drop inline images, with alignment options.

Wishlist - Listed

• I get this is a lite blogging platform but you need post tags.
• Why can't I see how many people have subscribed to my blog? hey.com offers an email to blogging service and you can see who has subscribed and even export the list should you leave them.
• Where is the search functionality?
• Pinned posts would be great
• The support guides are limited, I see some other Listed customers have added extra pages, how can I do this?
• Scheduled posts would be amazing. I could write to my hearts content and schedule to send in the future.
• Guestbook is so old fashioned, why not introduce comments?
• Adding a Paypal donate button would be better than the current system.
• The ability to have a contact me page with a form, that can be switched on.

Conclusion

Standard Notes and Listed have the potential of being fantastic, but it feels a little dated and unloved, and a little to like Apple Notes. I'd love to see their roadmap. I've paid for a 5 years subscription and still plan on using them as my main note app, due to the security and Proton's vision. But the subscription isn't cheap and security aside, I think Standard Notes is in much need of some loving from the devs.