notes-android VS awesome-standard-notes

I actually have my own little nextcloud instance running on a $5/month digital ocean virtual private server. My intent was for family (only 3 people) and i to use it...but honestly, most of the time it is only me. I draft conventional old text files (though i do use markdown)...and save the files in a nextcloud folder to enable sync anywhere. For actually synching and drafting of the text/note files, i have the nextcloud mobile app as well as the nextcloud notes app on my phone (https://github.com/stefan-niedermann/nextcloud-notes)...so now i can jot down notes anywhere that i carry my phone. I do lack some advanced features that zim wiki would bring, like linkages, some color formatting, styles...but for my workflow i found them not to be ultra necessary anyway. Side note: i use nextcloud for general file synching, rss/feed reading, and other functions...so it was not setup only/specifically for notes...the note taking just came along as an extra benefit. Any headaches in managing my own nextcloud instance (and just like managing any of your own infrastructure, there are always costs), are outweighed by all the features that i legitimately use/benefit from nextcloud.

If you use nextcloud, you could also use other text editors on mobile phone like joplin, qOwnNotes, etc. - so you are not stuck only with the nextcloud notes app. Also, if you are not an adherent to open source software, my workflow can also be used via dropbox, box.com, onedrive, etc. too i suppose (you're just drafting notes on the road and saving them up to someone e;lse's server/cloud). I hope that helps!

Nextcloud Notes (version 3.4.13): View and edit notes on Nextcloud

https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/notes https://github.com/stefan-niedermann/nextcloud-notes

Standard Notes, if you want something higher security (zero-knowledge, end-to-end encrypted). The free version is very basic but you can use third party extensions without a subscription to make it more usable (I use Rich Markdown Editor, see this page for others).

Maybe customise it

Speaking of 3rd party stuff: https://github.com/jonhadfield/awesome-standard-notes

Yeah, i found a guide here (along with some free cool themes and free extensions): https://github.com/jonhadfield/awesome-standard-notes

I'm finding the out of the box editors for standard notes are sort of buggy, particularly on the Mac OS app, and I wanted to try out some of the 3rd party editors found here: https://github.com/jonhadfield/awesome-standard-notes