Pete, I know you didn't ask for advice about Joplin, so apologies for this unsolicited advice: configure the built-in backup plugin to auto-backup your notes every N hours/days, somewhere on your system drive. Better to have more than a single backup (the default value, I think, is seven).
After setting it up, test your configuration for accuracy of backup and for ability to import it back into Joplin.
Why do all this?
Given the vagaries of various operating systems on smartphones and desktop computers, and of the connectivity between devices, synchronization is a tricky business for any cross-device, cross-platform app. There may be race conditions, or the connection may abruptly fail, or the operating system may throttle or kill the synchronization for whatever reasons; so data loss can happen. If you have a backup copy, you can simply import the lost data, and get back to work.
Also, your backup plugin may create a backup after data loss happens, but before you register the loss. In such cases, having multiple backup copies allows you to use the best version to recover your data.
Remember also that Joplin itself retains note history (by default, for 90 days), so recovery of lost data should be possible within the app itself. But I do think setting up multi-copy auto-backup outside of the app's operating zone is still good practice.
Ignore if you have already done this. 😄
#joplin #joplinapp #notes #notesapp #backup
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