Don't clutter the home directory in macOS

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Don't clutter the home directory in macOS #845

Closed sebdanielsson closed 2 years ago

sebdanielsson commented 2 years ago

Please don't clutter our home directories with more directories like Standard Notes Backups. Standard Notes on macOS and Linux should adhere to the basedir spec and store data in .config, .local, .cache etc if those variables are set.

More info: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory#Support

haflaxa commented 2 years ago

Hi @SebDanielsson! SN stores settings and data in default and XDG directories on macOS and Linux ...

"~/Library/Application Support/Standard Notes/"
"~/.config/Standard Notes/"

For ease of access, the Standard Notes Backups directory is created in the home directory by default, but it can easily be relocated from inside SN like so:

Hope this helps!