In a database with the option to export all notes or single notes as markdown.

If you haven’t tried Trilium in a while you should. It has improved significantly and has a nice clean new theme.

I’ve been using Trilium for years and the feature set has grown significantly. It is pretty simple up front but has all the bells and whistles just an extra click or two away. It is entirely free (no up sells, pro tiers, subscriptions, etc - you get it all free, so do support the developer if you can!) There is a third party android app that works quite well if you need that and the pwa is quite good too. I’m pretty sure you won’t be disappointed. it seemed like almost every time I thought trilium was missing a feature, I would find out that it actually has it (or something similar). The only thing I would say is that if you’re a flat file only person, then it isn’t for you - it stores the notes in a database -even though they can be easily exported in a directory format.

Trilium Next has 2fa, note encryption and oidc support AFAIK, so the authentication should not be a concern. Every instance retains its own copy of the data and syncs with the server (if you have one) backups are made daily in the back end iirc. Exporting the data is trivial too in both HTML and markdown.

We actually plan to be able to do this! I am a OneNote convert and was able to convert everything to Trilium with quite minimal formatting issues.

Thanks for the clear explanation, that makes sense to me. For me, I just use Trilium for all of the above, so it doesn’t affect me, but I could see how it would matter for those using it in the way you are 👍

For reference, I have over 300,000 notes in Trilium, and it is runs smoothly 👍

I’ve never quite understood why this is such a non-starter for most people. I just simply set up a script to export my Trilium notes to Nextcloud as flat files so I can still read my notes anywhere even without a Trilium client. Trilium also allows you to edit the notes with an external editor, and then you can just re-import the note to update the note in Trilium.

I think note cloning is unique - note clones were a game changer for me. Directories are notes too so you can add content to them just like any other note. The biggest advantage for me: its open source Server syncing is free without needing to use third party solutions.