I looked at it and did some reading of others experiences, and it looked like a huge pain. I opted for Joplin and haven't looked back. I self host Joplin server for sync via docker and it's rock solid.

I love that the client is available on any platform. Is the client a little ugly, and clunky? Yes, but for me it's not so ugly and clunky that I'll give up a fully open source self hosted e2ee notes solution.

I've been self hosting Joplin in some form for something like six years. Once a year or so I scope out the other options and as of yet I haven't found another notes solution that I'm willing to switch to.

I did for a while but they made it such a pain to use it that way, so I ditched it and went back to Joplin.

For example, Standard notes was working fine, then one day an update broke my self-hosted setup. When I finally fixed it (it took days), I noticed the editors I used no longer worked either. I got tired of fixing and fighting to keep it working.

Joplin's editor sucks (on mac), but at least the app reliably stays working and syncing.

Joplin is a better way to go.

I used to use Standard Notes for a while (didn't self-host the server) but for various reasons switched over to Joplin, syncing the data between devices with Syncthing.

So i see that they have a premium version and that the code is gpl. So are the premium features in the repo? Can i make my own build that gives me the premium features free?

I remember hosting server option was somehow paid.

That’s somewhat my reason for I decided to go with Joplin