Simple. Free. Open Source. E2E encryption. Basically, No frills.
Their idea is to make software not with most features but the one that stays until the next century.
They have a great blog on this philosophy. https://standardnotes.com/longevity
On that note (no pun intended), I do wish it was possible to query tag intersections, so to speak. E.g., show notes tagged with both 'todo' & 'coding'.
I was surprised to read "surprised" cause even if GitJournal choose badly, the history is still there.
Nevertheless thanks for letting me know. I'll bump it in my internal Todo list.