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by pghqdev 144 days ago
Valid concerns. Text notes are small so quota limits rarely hit in practice, but silent data loss is indeed the critical failure mode for a notes app.

Also the main use-case for the app is to be used as a quick notepad rather than to archive data.

Current temporary mitigation: export to MD/PDF/TXT from the note menu. For users who need real durability guarantees, the planned E2EE sync would provide redundancy across devices and our servers

What I'm adding in upcoming updates:

  - Request navigator.storage.persist() on first use to prevent automatic eviction           

  - Monitor quota via navigator.storage.estimate() and warn when approaching limits          

  - Catch QuotaExceededError explicitly and prompt immediate export                          

  - Periodic "backup reminder" for users who haven't exported recently                       

                
Really appreciate the specific pushback.