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My iPhone also has secure E2E encryption for "Secure Notes" in the built-in Notes app which is probably sufficient for most people.

Also, technical note: having a separate Intel and Apple Silicon Mac app is a dead-giveaway it's an Electron app (not that I mind those).

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Every once in a while I think I must be missing something by just using the Apple Notes, but so far I’ve always come back. Recently I discovered it supports Evernote import, and so I migrated that stuff to Notes, too.

In my experience, the missing something is "have at least one computer that is a Windows PC" - at which point you are limited to a website. (Not the end of the world.)

Even better - if you use this Secure Note feature you simply can't get the note on a Windows PC.

I'm happy with Apple Notes. BUT, give me markdown!!!

I really don't care what happens to the note. I want mark-up but doesn't have to be markdown. I want WYSIWYG with 'limited' Markdown-esque formatting (i.e. if I set the font to something, then all notes should have that. If I change the 'default' color of notes, then all notes should update (themes). Bonus points if you can save/export into a plain-text viewable format.

So far, nothing fits this bill. Obsidian comes close but I have small issues with it.

100% agree. There are a lot of unnecessary features, that I rarely use. As a customer, you need a simple reliable service.

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