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50 dollars a year for a note taking application? How can anyone think that this is remotely reasonable? Also, can you not shill this so hard? I don't have strong feelings for Joplin, but the way that you're trying to knock it down, it's bordering mental.
How can you say that? $50 dollars is the same as Obsidian, half of Evernote, and the same as Joplin's pro cloud tier. Why do I shill it so hard, because it's the best option for me in the note taking app sphere and I really like it. Why do I knock down Joplin, because it falls into the FOSS trap of making people use something that needs to be configured to be usable.
I actually have to agree that the price is too high. Yes, Notesnook is competitive. But they're all way too expensive for my taste. I'm really not happy with any of the solutions I've seen recently.
For comparison, I pay for bitwarden. It costs me $10 per year. That's a price point that I'm more willing to consider.
On some level I agree with you, though I've justified it by thinking about it as also a regular yearly contribution to the project that I would otherwise forget about doing while using something FOSS