Who's behind the open source, zero-knowledge note-taking service Notesnook? Today I sit with Abdullah Atta, CEO & Lead Developer of Notesnook for an interview, watch it here:

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Timestamps

00:00 - Intro

00:39 - About Abdullah & Notesnook

01:42 - What made you want to create Notesnook?

05:06 - Who is the team behind Notesnook?

05:59 - What are the challenges behind your service?

09:58 - Why is E2EE important for digital notes?

12:29 - Who is the target audience for Notesnook?

17:06 - What is the overall goal of your service?

20:35 - When will Notesnook have collaboration? / Collaboration rant

24:55 - How does Notesnook handle feature parity across different apps? / more collaboration rant

28:28 - Where do you see yourself going from here?

29:31 - Is Notesnook open source?

31:21 - What are the next big technical challenges?

34:17 - Outro

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