How to Install Standard Notes on Manjaro

Standard Notes is a secure note-taking app that you can use to store your personal information, including passwords, credit card details, and other sensitive data. You can self-host Standard Notes on Manjaro to maintain complete control and ownership of your notes. In this tutorial, we'll walk you through the process of installing Standard Notes on Manjaro.

Prerequisites

To follow this tutorial, you'll need:

A system running Manjaro Desktop or Manjaro Server
A user account with sudo privileges
A web browser to download the Standard Notes package

Step 1: Install Node.js

Standard Notes requires Node.js to run. If you don't have Node.js installed on your system, you can install it by running the following command:

sudo pacman -S nodejs npm

This will install Node.js and npm on your system.

Step 2: Download Standard Notes

You can download the Standard Notes package from the official website or GitHub repository. In this tutorial, we'll download the package from the official website.

Open your web browser and navigate to https://standardnotes.org/.
Click on the "Get Standard Notes" button on the top-right corner of the website.
Click on the "Self-hosting" tab.
Click on the "Download" button under the "Self-hosted Standard Notes" section.
Wait for the download to complete.

Step 3: Install Standard Notes

After you've downloaded the Standard Notes package, you can install it on your system. Here's how:

Open your terminal and navigate to the directory where you downloaded the package.
Extract the contents of the archive:
```
tar xzvf standardnotes-server-x.x.x.tar.gz
```
Replace x.x.x with the version number of the package you downloaded.
Navigate to the extracted directory:
```
cd standardnotes-server-x.x.x
```
Replace x.x.x with the version number of the package you downloaded.
Install Standard Notes:
```
sudo npm install -g pm2
npm install
```
Start Standard Notes:
```
pm2 start app.js
pm2 startup
```
This will start the Standard Notes server and add it to the startup process.

Step 4: Configure Firewall

If you're using a firewall on your system, you'll need to allow incoming connections to the Standard Notes server. Here's how:

Open your terminal and run the following command to open the firewall configuration tool:
```
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=http
```
Reload the firewall configuration:
```
sudo firewall-cmd --reload
```

Step 5: Access Standard Notes

You can now access Standard Notes by entering the IP address of your Manjaro system in your web browser followed by port 4000. For example, if your IP address is 192.168.0.2, you would enter the following URL in your browser:

http://192.168.0.2:4000

You'll be prompted to create an account and set up encryption. Once you've done that, you can start using Standard Notes to store your sensitive information.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, you learned how to install Standard Notes on Manjaro by following a few simple steps. Standard Notes provides a secure and private way to store your sensitive information, and hosting it yourself ensures complete control and ownership of your data.