Seeing all these recommendations for all these note taking applications makes me feel so out of touch lol like I literally just use Discord for short-term scrap notes and then I use txt files for long-term notes (synced to my Dropbox), like you said.

I’m probably missing out on some features but honestly I have instant cloud syncing for my short-term and long-term notes and it works well enough for me, plus with 2FA it’s generally secure enough. Anything sensitive would be encrypted and probably stored locally only. It works well enough for me.