Joplin

This is useful for personal notes, study, project information and tasks that you want to keep with your notes. It suits you if you like to combine folders and tags. For simultaneous collaboration with complex documents, you need to assess separately whether the available sharing options match your expectations.

Start with some clear notebooks and try synchronizing with an insignificant test note. Save the required passwords before turning on encryption.

You can enable end-to-end encryption for synchronization. Do this carefully from one first device and then have the settings synchronized to the other devices. That encryption does not automatically protect the local note database if someone has access to your computer. Therefore, also secure the device and any unencrypted exports.

Synchronization requires an appropriate storage service and good settings. The separate Joplin Cloud service has been paid for.

Keep the encrypted password secure; an unknown password is not easy to restore while maintaining access to content. Do not switch synchronization settings at the same time on multiple devices. After an import check for missing attachments and create an independent reserve next to the synchronized collection.

Joplin is suitable if you want to save notes and tasks with control over local storage and synchronization. You can build a collection without tying your entire process to one note website. The most important choice is in your synchronization destination and backup. A well-ordered notebook can only be used on multiple devices if attachments and changes also come fully along.

Joplin fits especially if you are willing to make a clear choice of storage and synchronization. Check a note with attachment on a second device and also view an export outside your regular installation. That says more about switching than importing text only. Speak for yourself a simple format, so that the management of notebooks does not become an end in itself.