Very confused about Notes relationship to Plume and Daino notes (commercial applications)

[Darthagnon]

I was googling around the other day, and came across Daino Notes f.k.a. Plume Notes, f.k.a. Notes, which looks to be an exact clone of this application. The update prompt in the Notes application downloaded from Github releases here points to a Daino website (not the homepage but https://www.daino.io/?utm_source=app_update_window). This mess of conflicting branding, conflicting brand names, closed-source and open-source packages is worrying - has the application been acquired a la Audacity? Or is this a domain squatter trying to spread malware by supply-chain infiltration?

Websites:

• https://www.get-notes.com
• https://www.daino.io
• https://www.notes-foss.com
• https://x.com/dainoHQ
• https://web.archive.org/web/20240818054715/https://www.get-plume.com/

[nuttyartist]

Hey Hey!

There is no malware in none of the things you mentioned, they are all my projects. Let me explain and clear the confusion.

• I started this project, in this current repository (https://github.com/nuttyartist/notes) 10 years ago. It's completely open source (even though it has a paid feature that you can get for free by compiling the app yourself).
• Almost exactly 1 year ago I started Plume (get-plume.com) which has a completely revamped advance block editor that I rewrote from scratch. Plume is not open source. Some of its source code is available to comply with the MPL license of Notes FOSS (this repo) which it is based upon.
• Recently, I decided to rebrand Plume into Daino Notes. I still haven't finished the rebranding (Plume users still didn't get an update about that - although it should happen tomorrow).
• The old domain of this repo (get-notes.com) is now dedicated to Daino Notes, and this repo (Notes FOSS) got a new domain notes-foss.com.
• get-plume.com now redirects to get-notes.com, and I'll soon close its repo to avoid confusion.

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So essentially, now there are only 2 note-taking application:

1. Daino Notes
   Domain: https://www.get-notes.com/
   MPL-respective-repo: https://github.com/nuttyartist/daino-notes-public
2. Notes FOSS
   Domain: https://www.notes-foss.com
   repo: https://github.com/nuttyartist/notes

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I know it's all confusing. But I hope this clears things up. Notes FOSS (this project) is and will always remain FULLY open source.

Let me know if this clear things up. If you have any more questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

[firas-assaad]

Thank you for the explanation. It's still a little confusing to me.

First of all was the unexpected update to the non-open-source Daino Notes app. Its different license and relationship to the old version weren't clear during the update.

And then when I went to the Notes FOSS website, where everything is branded as "Notes", the download link is for a "PlumeSetup" file that installs "Plume". I start "Plume" and inside the app everything is branded as "Daino Notes".

At this point I'm not even sure if I'm running the open-source version from this repository.

I really appreciate your work on all these applications in any case!

[nuttyartist]

And then when I went to the Notes FOSS website, where everything is branded as "Notes", the download link is for a "PlumeSetup" file that installs "Plume". I start "Plume" and inside the app everything is branded as "Daino Notes".

Whoops, I'm sorry about that. I forgot to change some links: nuttyartist/notes-foss-website@ba74022. It should be fixed now.

To make sure you run the open source version, please open the About window. This should tell you which version you're running.

As I said, right now there are only Notes FOSS (this repo), and Daino Notes. You should ignore Plume.