I’ve been decreasingly enthused about Standard Notes since I started self hosting it.

• First, it was a little weird that the biggest draw of their premium subscription was not their cloud but extensions, which were mostly made by third parties and needed only a static site to host. But I could host my own extensions so this was no big deal.
• Then they made it harder to host and install your own extensions, making you have to select them one at a time instead of pointing to a single place.
• Then they started moving functionality like folders into extensions.
• More recently, a bug appeared where the logged in account would start trying to sync with the default instance instead of the one you initially entered, on both desktop and mobile apps.
• And possibly the last straw for me, they discontinued synching self-hosted instances on their web app, without warning.

And I haven’t been particularly thrilled with the idea of putting all my privacy needs under a single banner either. Email isn’t secure. You need to put a ton of trust in your VPN provider. I don’t think either of those services should be provided by the same company…