One of our guiding principles with Supernotes is that data staleness is an undesirable property and so we're trying to build a markdown-notecard-first (read: portable) and sharing-first (read: no staleness) notes app.

I touched on the example of a blog in the article in the context of E2EE, but let's forget about E2EE for a second and just look at it from a stale data perspective: you click the share button in Joplin and publish to the blogging app of your choice. Later a reader on the blog points out a few typos so you make some changes in your blogging platform. Now you have a version of your blog post on Joplin that is stale unless you manually copy-paste your changes from the blogging platform back to Joplin. Or you make the changes in Joplin and need to manually republish to the blog somehow.

But what if instead your notes app was a single source of truth and making changes there automatically propagated everywhere you needed – whether semi-privately in the Supernotes collection of a friend, in a shared Notion workspace with your team, or published to the broader internet. That's (one of) our goals with Supernotes.